Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 May 91 18:17:52 EDT References: <1991May20.071452.14045@iguana.uucp> Organization: Mad Scientist merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes: > > If you don't want to be a mail server, then stop doing it. > > we want to maintain connectivity, and will continue to do it. Then expect that, sometimes, the resources you have allocated based on 'normal' levels of traffic will be insufficient. Don't turn your limits into limits on the net as a whole. > >If you don't want to carry mail to or from bitftp, don't do it. > > problem solved. 8^) To everyone else's detriment. It is not as funny as you think. > end users seem to be really pissed off now that their free ride is over. Free ride? Are you now paying my bills? Hahahahaha. > it's funny, you know, i get thank you letters from sysadmins and hate mail > from end users. And hate mail from admins, too. > also, your previous posts in comp.mail.uucp are starting to blame the entire > province of Ontario for the timely death of BITFTP. I am not the one who began to post the opinions of Ontario as a whole. That is the responsibility of one of your feeds. > why do you insist on escalating the blame for this from one individual who > posted an article explaining his grief and asking for some helpful hints, > to blaming an entire region? You admitted you were buzzed when you wrote what you did. Asking about shutting BITFTP off is not asking for helpful hints. > the uucp community of Ontario is about to suffer a very large hit on their > connectivity. The entire UUCP community just has, too. > this will mean that they will come to depend on sites like lsuc, who will > store and forward their messages. Then they will be in for a shock when you offer to handle their mail for them and then start telling them that they can't use mail. > i hope your connections are well aware of your total lack of respect for thei > resources. I made sure that my connection was not going to be bothered by it. (I.e. I asked what the limits were. Response: none) How this has become a lack of respect for their resources is beyond me.