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[Paul Ratcliffe]

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:59:34 +0300, Cristian Secara wrote:

>Why don't you take into consideration maybe he *really* needed some

Maybe he did, but I don't see anybody offering any. Maybe that's
because of the way he went about it. Attachments to a mailing list are
just plain rude, not to mention the huge load it puts on the server...
130k * 300 or so users is the best part of 40MB.

>help ? I suppose this is one of the scope of this list. What's 130k of
>mail garbage ? Nothing, even on a 14.4k modem.

Well, quite patently, 130k is not nothing. If you think it is, then you
have a serious problem with reality.

>Most digests on hardware@os2ss.com have more than 45k. So what ?

What's that got to do with this list? Absolutely nothing. You might as
well say there's 3GB of stuff on Hobbes. It is absolutely meaningless
in the current context.

>Unfortunately for Vinicius Ximenes, he gave no details on how he saved
>his message, the 'garbage' has no header. I cannot simulate his
>problem, the 'garbage' is not *exactly* what he received.

Exactly. He just arrogantly posted a load of crap and expected somebody
else to do all the hard work and sort out whatever it was. Sorry, it
doesn't work that way.