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Re: 6 months!
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 24 Nov 1998 03:33:44 GMT
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lpien@ctp.iwantnospam.SPAMCAKEcom
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Mike Stanley wrote:
<24M ?? admin wrath>
I guess I'm confused. What's the difference between ftping a file from a
site and receiving it in the mail? Same bandwidth consumption, really.
Or am I missing something? I defer to your knowledge since I know you
admin sites...
--
Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: 6 months!
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| (...) Well, generally speaking mail servers are "meant" to handle lots of little files, really tiny files on average. I don't know about most places, but a lot of the boxes I've seen have things like mailhost.x.x running on totally separate machines (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: 6 months!
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| (...) Actually mailing a file usually uses more bandwidth, because the file must be encoded -- maybe something like a 25% increase. But the main problem is server space: when you ftp a file, it goes from the remote site directly to your machine. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) A 24+ meg file? I don't think so. If you do count on one of the mail admins on either end coming down on you like a ton of bricks. (26 years ago, 23-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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