email RFC's?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:53:57 -0500 (EST)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > > Obviously, folks do not understand how SMTP works or they'd stop sending Gb attachments.  My mail servers will reject anything over 2Mb because it chokes the pipes.  Worst part is, these large attachments often go to long lists of people.  I refuse to buy an E-3 so folks can e-mail 6Gb databases to each other.  I can only afford 1024k (hopefully soon to be an E-1) with the number of clients I have.  Large e-mails are as bad as Kazaa.
> >
> > What's wrong with Kazaa?
>
> Well, my residential clients (small business clients too), sign a Usage Policy for their bandwidth that says in part they won't run servers of any kind (mail, etc.) without prior approval.  When Kazaa installs on a Windoze box on my network, I know immediately because I see lots of external connections inward sucking up all the bandwidth.  By default, Kazaa installs itself as a server (and apparently is telling the mothership it can see 11Mb of bandwidth -- that would be the wireless card) and the entire world descends.  Ditto for napster, et. al.  Then the lusers complain when I cut them off or block incoming/outgoing on the Napster/Kazaa/etc. ports.

Are you making it clear, when they sign their contract, that P2P clients
are considered to be servers?  This sounds like more of a user education
issue than an abuse issue.  I personally wouldn't consider Gnutella (and
its ilk) to be servers, although i can see how they could be interpreted
as such.

Oh, and please fix your line wrap.  It doesn't appear to be set at all
right now.  thanks.

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