Xref: utzoo news.admin:14440 comp.mail.uucp:6547 Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lsuc!iguana!merce From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) Subject: Re: BITFTP Message-ID: <1991May18.204257.9520@iguana.uucp> Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society References: <1991May16.161706.2680@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 18 May 91 20:42:57 GMT In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: > Like I said. The problem was not BITFTP. The problem is software >that happily attempts to scribble across a disk on which there is no >space. We would not accept this in any other application, especially an >unattended one, but we will accept this from uucico. > > Well, BITFTP has shut itself off. Disks will now be filled with human >generated mail. Fixing uucico would stop the problem at its root, but >no, the next thing to be dropped will be mail itself. Then newsgroups >will become too large, and those will be dropped. > > Unless you fix the uucico problem, you will never be rid of the >problem of filled disks. isn't this like saying "cars produce so much pollution, we neet to improve peoples lungs" ? -- [ Jim Mercer work: jim@lsuc.on.ca home: merce@iguana.uucp +1 519 570-3467 ] [ "Anarchists Unite!" - seen spray painted on a wall ]