Klarinet Archive - Posting 000881.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] 2 Mb message
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:47:24 -0400

Dear Klarinetters,
A 2-part message, each part around 1 Mb in size, was sent via Klarinet. The
machine kept up, but the line to the Internet was horribly full - the
machine was trying to send 1.2 GB out onto the Internet.

I have a filter to toss out most of the MIME types - however, this was one
that I didn't set up yet - I hadn't seen it before. Needless to say, the
filter is in place now.

Please, please, please! Think about what you're doing when you attach big
files to your posting. Your mail administrator would probably knock you
upside your head if you sent a 2 Mb message to 600 people! If you were here
_I'd_ smack you upside the head. I caught the message before it did _too_
much damage - some of you may find that you've got a damaged mail message
(or 2) from Klarinet. I'm sorry about that, but I had to kill the mail
processes very quickly.

Hopefully most of you will just get a 2 part message stating that I deleted
the pieces of the bitmap.

Back to practicing ...
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Mark Charette, Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
charette@-----.org

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