I'll top-post for this announcement. I think we found the winner
of the "Revive An Old Topic" award.
Congrats.
On 7/28/07, Børge Holen <borge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007 00:41, Philip Thompson wrote:
> > On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > > On Wed, June 13, 2007 12:21 am, Crayon Shin Chan wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 12:39, Paul Scott wrote:
> > >>> Our interns and students specifically. They are all dead scared of
> > >>> joining mailing lists in general, and find that using a web based
> > >>> prettier interface is much easier and friendlier.
> > >>
> > >> Not to mention slower, clumsier and more bandwidth hungry than a
> > >> mailing list. It's time you did them a favour and show them that
> > >> mailing lists
> > >> are nothing to be afraid of.
> > >
> > > Do students and interns still have quotas on their email accounts?...
> >
> > Yes. It does depend on the university though. For our students, the
> > default is only 50 megs - they may request more. However, these text-
> > only emails don't really take up that much space.
> >
> > > Cuz I *DO* remember the days when the email quotas a University would
> > > have prohibited subscribing to PHP mailing list...
> >
> > This is not currently the case.....
> >
> > > Surely in this day and age, the quotas aren't *that* restrictive...
>
> There seems to be some failure to comunicate (I believe the Prodigy said
> that)... whatever, quotas on the universities will not keep you from
> recieving mail... or download anything of the net. It just defines the space
> available to the user. The temporary space available lets you pull way more,
> and get a delete warning from either an automated system or an admin (at my
> university, wasn't it 10 days or so before forced deletion on random objects
> occured?... dunno).
> Imagine an master or phD degree getting lost because someone set up an
> university server with some weird download quota.
> This could hardly be _A_ reason for makin' this blog... the amount of mail or
> numbers should not be an issue. If it is so... how about them digest mails?
>
> >
> > True.
> >
> >
> > ~Philip
>
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