[Esd-l] Something new

Brett Glass brett at lariat.org
Thu Jan 31 11:20:01 PST 2002


At 11:11 AM 1/31/2002, Floyd Pierce wrote:
  
>John, my users are about to drive me insane. We have a huge
>problem with people using FSCKing M$ products with which they
>manage to generate files only slightly less massive than a
>black hole and then send an e-mail to 50 users on our system
>with the big honking file as an attachment.

We just limit messages to 2 MB. (This is especially good practice
if you're using John's sanitizer and/or Procmail, as they'll
consume tons of RAM if you don't.) People whose messages are
rejected quickly learn to post their files somewhere.

--Brett



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