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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:57:22 -0500
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- From: "Stephen L. Arnold" <ARNOLD@ARNOLD.COM>
- Subject: Re: problem with jan_receive area and quotas
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- I can understand why a system administration would like to prevent users
- from using the JAN_RECEIVE area to circumvent disk quota policies.
- However, I think procedures based on the number of files are
- ill-conceived. Instead, action should be based on a policy about disk
- space consumed and/or a time limit. What if a user requests a package
- that ships in 4 parts? The user would have to stay logged in and try to
- receive the first parts as they arrive so they aren't purged! The user
- may have to request a package several times to get all the parts.
-
- Also, your BITNET neighbors may have spent a lot of resources (CPU
- cycles, disk space, network bandwidth) to deliver the files to you.
- This is why Jnet receives files and why VMSmail usually is configured to
- receive mail with EXQUOTA.
-
- If you must enforce a limit to prevent abuse of the JAN_RECEIVE area,
- consider moving over-the-limit files to the Postmaster's area for
- a time, from where the Postmaster can easily retrieve them after (your
- choice) lecturing the user, charging a file, reporting the problem to
- the user's department chair, etc.
-
- "Steve" Stephen L. Arnold, Ph.D., Principal, Arnold Consulting
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