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Re: EMAIL != FTP
From: deeann mikula <deeann () telerama com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:22:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Sabri Berisha wrote:
Second, an average user probably wouldn't have the skill.Then he/she should learn. I don't buy a car if I can't drive. I'm sorry for comparing internetworking with driving a car but I feel that FTP'ing is a basic skill if you want to use the internet in a professional way
uh, when is the last time that you worked the front line of an ISP? most people have never even heard of FTP. i almost spewed my orange juice all over my desk when i read that paragraph. :) unfortunately, i have accepted the fact that there is no stopping customers from emailing 10MB (and larger!) files, they can just go to our competition if we prevent it. i bitch, moan, and insist that the front line kids give the "email != FTP speech," but we continue to permit it. *sigh* unless we go back in time and re-do the protocols, and re-educate newbies before setting them lose on the 'net, i don't think that we are going to stop people from emailing what should be FTP'd. deeann m.m. mikula director of operations telerama public access internet http://www.telerama.com 1.877.688.3200
Current thread:
- Re: EMAIL != FTP, (continued)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP John Fraizer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Robert Blayzor (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Scott Francis (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Sabri Berisha (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Marko Karppinen (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP David Howe (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Scott Francis (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP deeann mikula (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Robert Sharp (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Steve Sobol (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Albert Meyer (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Greg A. Woods (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Albert Meyer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Steve Sobol (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Scott Francis (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Valdis . Kletnieks (May 26)
- Re: cleaning up MIME external-body attachments.... Greg A. Woods (May 26)