We set ours since people were sending 20-50meg mail
messages. Some of them learned how to use ftp.
Use quota for disk space restrictions.
Ed Longstrom
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jeff Halper wrote:
> Does anyone know how you can absolutely disallow a user from using more than
> a pre-defined amount of disk space. Can you somehow limit the size of an
> allowable email message?
>
> I just had a user whose email file contained 321 megabytes of stuff!! Seems
> he was using us as some sort of data-warehouse - I haven't any idea what he
> was doing, but he has only logged in 35 minutes in a month! I can see that
> users like this can cripple a system. (This 321 megs of data came in during
> the last 5 hours)
>
> -Thanks
>
> Jeff
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