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From: bert@medley.ssdl.com (Bert Medley  )
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BITFTP
Message-ID: <107L32w164w@medley.ssdl.com>
Date: 27 May 91 16:49:59 GMT
References: <1991May26.122417.4210@druid.uucp>
Organization: Synercom Technology, Inc., Houston, Texas
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darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:

> In article <1991May25.202516.12961@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Kent Paul Dolan writes:
> >every UUCP site with limited disk space, news (and
> >perhaps mail; how would one know?) being dropped on
> >the floor regularly because the transfer protocol
> >hasn't the sense to say "full up, hold the rest for
> >later". That's as broken as broken software can get,
> 
> Your cure is worse.  If someone downstream from me snags
> gcc and X and only has a 20 Meg DOS system then that stuff
> (assuming *I* have room for it) sits on my machine forever
> blocking stuff for everyone on my system and my other
> downstreams.  I have to be able to drop undeliverable stuff.
> Why should everyone else suffer because of one bozo?
> 
	Being a leaf node at home without FTP access, I know exactly
	what you mean.  Because of the selfish/uneducated actions of
	a few, many are being denied access to FTP services.  The 
	problem wasn't BITFTP or the presence of any other mail based
	archive server.  Pure and simple, it is a problem of education
	for those who are intelligaent enough to understand and policy
	for those too selfish.

	If BITFTP and other FTP->mail servers were to limit the number of
	and size of the files requested, that bozo could not get hold of
	gcc and X in one fell swoop.  Instead, he would have to retrieve
	it in bite size pieces.  A better solution for all concerned.


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