20 Apr
2009
20 Apr
'09
4:24 a.m.
Actually, that is a pretty good idea. The server is well up to the task.
There would have to be a good mechanism to prevent the server becoming a
warez/pr0n dumping grounds from others. And there would have to be a good
way to give files time limits so temp transfers between members don't sit
there forever.
Someone send me a proftpd.conf for it and I'll look it over :)
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: List behaviour (was Re: Intercept Jr. Schematics)
On 16 Apr 2009 at 23:31, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I thought this was in the FAQ, but it's not.
It has, though, been
explained several times over the years. The mailing list does not
allow attachments, by design, as it's intended for discussion, not
filestore, and presumably most of the (thousands?) of subscribers
wouldn't be interested in any one particular attachment (like
schematics). It also doesn't allow HTML; it's meant to be
lightweight.
Now that we're on a new server, would it be an abuse of the list
owner's (and admin's) good graces to request a ftp area for the
subscribers' use? One could then distribute a file (such as that
used for those Intercept Jr. schematics to the list.
Just a thought,
Chuck