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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 24 May 91 07:19:19 GMT
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In article <91May18.002523edt.1028@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>, moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
> stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:
> At present, we keep logs on MBAS traffic and send "please don't route
> this mail through us" messages to people who are recipients of a lot of
> such traffic.  It seems to be working fairly well, except for the
> occasional glitch (the mail Jim was complaining about passed through us
> too!) and the human cost in monitoring the logs.
> 
> An option we're considering is to modify our mailer to downgrade messages
> greater than M Kbytes and remove downgraded messages if they're older
> than N hours.  (may as well learn from Bitnet :-) More human cost, but
> then, one of utai's postmasters is interested in exploring the frontiers
> of mailer science!

I seem to recall limitations of number of files and/or size as well over
Bitnet.  I really don't care WHEN I get the file, I just would like to GET
the thing!

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