On Sunday 29 July 2007 02:18, you wrote: > I'll top-post for this announcement. I think we found the winner > of the "Revive An Old Topic" award. hup, yes its that vacation thing you posted about later ;D I just got 2278 more > > 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 > > > > -- > > --- > > Børge > > http://www.arivene.net > > --- > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- --- Børge http://www.arivene.net --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
