List behaviour (was Re: Intercept Jr. Schematics)

[Jay West]

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" 
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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
>