filePro permissions (was Re: Post-it(R) Notes Mail Message)

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Confusious (Kenneth Brody) say:
> Quoting Tips (Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:03:26 -0400):
> 
> > So to allow others access, I must change the owner to filepro and set
> > the perms to 777.
> 
> No, you mustn't.

Another dime.  Ka-ching.  When can I take that vacation to England for a
month?  :)

> It's a waste of bandwidth.  While one 100K graphic in one e-mail to one
> person only wastes 100K, what happens when that one e-mail is sent to
> hundreds of mailing list subscribers?  And that's just one e-mail.

100 * 300 = 30000K...  Around 30MB.  Obviously Ken doesn't need it spelled
out, but someone probably does.  And that's what the list server has to
contend with sending.  You're abusing Celestial's machine and uplink
needlessly when you do that.

> > Machines with supersized harddrives and bandwidth are so cheap now days.
> 
> That's assuming that everyone who receives your e-mail has large
> bandwidth available.

That's also assuming that even on large systems, you don't have mailbox
quotas (or filesystem quotas) that may be exceeded if you run close to the
edge.  I know when my quotas were lower, if someone sent a huge message and
it caused 10 other important ones to bounce, I'd get majorly peeved.
That's one of the fastest ways to my /dev/null list.  Worse is the
unsolicited 12MB software package in an attachment.  Seriously, people have
sent me VPN client software, for instance--fully legitimate to use, but
when my mailbox quota was 15MB and I had 3MB in it already because I don't
always flush things out of my inbox (I'm on so many lists...half the NASA
stuff is even unread yet, and I'm -interested- in that!)...  It is a grave
disservice to the recipient.  In short, it's rude and inconsiderate.  If
you're going to send anything over, say, 50K total, it should be solicited.

I still remember my university days with a *300KB* mailbox quota.  I wish
more people had "grown up" under restrictions like those.  They might
understand where their fundamental logic has gone astray.  As it is,
everyone always assumes unlimited everything, which may or may not bear
resemblence to reality.

mark->
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