Re: [alfa] files section?

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:15:25 +0000 webb.p@domain.elided wrote:

> John H points out the 10K limit on postings to the Digest.

> Spam fighting measures are always a good thing. 

it's actually not spam fighting, it's borked MTA defense[1]
(as well as protection against novice digest members sending
complete digests back to the digest.)

> However, in the rare case like this, there is occasion for large postings that are extremely valuable to us.

> Is it possible to set up a 'files' section within Krusty as Yahoo groups do
> for useful tips, posts, articles, pictures etc so that they may be
> referencable later?   How about something like a files@domain.elided for
> submission to verify no spam can make it in, then an automatic process to
> post the file once Majordomo has done it's anti-spam checks.

i've been considering installing some content management software such
as phpnuke on the server, which might be contrived to allow for large
file/tech article/picture postings. i have another application for it, but once
it's on, it could well do this.

richard

[1] there was a time when certain mail transport agents (MTAs)
would behave very badly with bounced email. the most
notorious product was the no longer sold or supported travesty
called MSMail, but it wasn't the only busted product on the
market back then. sometimes, when bouncing email, entire digests
would get mailed back to the digest, which would then be sent to
the bad email address, which would then be bounced....

this was particularly bad if it happened at about 6pm on a friday
evening, as it might not be spotted for a while.
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
    Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security
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