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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:25:00 EST
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- From: "Craig R. Watkins" <CRW@PSUECL.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: problem with jan_receive area and quotas
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- The real problem to deal with here (in the design of a scheme) is what
- to do with files which are received for users that are over their quota.
-
- Simply discarding them is not acceptable to me, but may be to some.
-
- There's no really good way of returning them, like there is with mail.
- (This is because mail is text-based with the allowable syntaxes to do
- the job while NJE files could be binary data or executables, etc.)
-
- You could just return it to the sender, from POSTMAST, but that's not
- very intuitive and wouldn't say who the bounced user was (assume the
- sender had sent multiple copies).
-
- Returning the file from the (non)receiving user would certainly be confusing.
-
- One possibility is to discard the file and send a mail message from POSTMASTER
- to the sender explaining the fate of the file, but that could still result
- in the data from the file being lost.
-
- I guess one could return the file AND a separate mail file describing the
- situation. I suspect that the file server maintainers of the network would
- be thrilled with this solution!
-
- Another approach is saving the over-quota file in a special management
- directory for delivery later, but that's basically the way it is now.
-
- Maybe someone has a new solution to this problem.
-