Xref: utzoo news.admin:14676 comp.mail.uucp:6709 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!maytag!xenitec!iguana!merce From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP Message-ID: <1991May27.032137.6109@iguana.uucp> Date: 27 May 91 03:21:37 GMT References: <1991May18.204257.9520@iguana.uucp> <1991May25.202516.12961@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society Lines: 34 In article <1991May25.202516.12961@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes: >> 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. > >> isn't this like saying "cars produce so much >> pollution, we neet to improve peoples lungs" ? > >You may well deserve your "butcher of bitftp" >appellation if you keep up that kind of response. >John is exactly right; the problem is, and always >has been, a piece of broken software, and a >corresponding broken protocol, that is willing to >keep accepting input it no longer has room to store. and one of his brilliant solutions for this problem, was to only run uucico under supervision. i agree that uucico is somewhat broken, but as you go on to say, the problem is so widespread, there is not much we can do about it. since it is going to be a long time before someone comes out with a software solution to the problem, i suggest we try to live within its limitations. -- [ Jim Mercer work: jim@lsuc.on.ca home: merce@iguana.uucp +1 519 570-3467 ] [ "AIDS. Stick it in your head instead!" - Billboard seen in Toronto ] [ (it lost (gained?) something in the translation from french) ]