Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: recent dmake-sources posted to comp.sources.misc Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 18:50:19 GMT References: <3640@rwthinf.UUCP> <3654@rwthinf.UUCP> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 25 berg@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (AKA Solitair) writes: |...Well, there is nothing wrong with that, if it |weren't for the fact that here in Germany we have to pay for incoming mail |(on a per byte basis). |Luckily, one of the two persons used the address in the Reply-To header |which alleviated the cost a bit. But generally I would like to warn |people not to boldly send (no matter how well meant it was) large |e-mail to persons in Germany, without asking their consent. I hope that the users there are trying to change the situation, otherwise they're going to run into major problems. There's nothing at all to keep someone from feeding you a multimegabyte posting (split, of course), and running your bill through the roof. And you couldn't do anything about it "Gosh, gee, he said he was interested in database programs, so I mailed him a copy of postgres." I would *hate* to be in their shoes. Sean -- *** Sean Casey *** "I feel better than James Brown!"