Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin Subject: Re: ftpmail data Message-ID: <1991Jun6.023815.19212@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 6 Jun 91 02:38:15 GMT References: <4139@motcsd.csd.mot.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 24 vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >> Perhaps you could add a GIF-rejecter [to ftpmail]? >> Lance Norskog > are all files whose names end in .gif to be considered junque? Unfortunately not, since it is quite as possible to archive in a *.gif an interesting cell cross-section or scanning electron micrograph for ftp as a scanned girlie mag photo. Contrariwise, not all the latter travel as *.gif files; there are over a hundred various archive formats in common use on the net, of which GIFs are only one. You might want to count the *.gif by number and volume being fetched, if it is easy to do, just to check whether they become a part of the volume eliminating which would bring your server back within cost goals. Kent, the man from xanth.