To all that responded:  Thanks!

It appears I did misread the message.

Sorry,

Dan Frezza, SFO


> At 11:01 AM 7/8/98 -0400, Dan Frezza wrote:
> >Dear Listowners,
> >
> >        Recently, I have had to deal with a person with a "Yahoo" account, whose
> >service appears to be very limited, in terms of storage space.  I wonder if
> >others had the same problem as I:  limited storage space -- over 5k, or is
> >this an error message because the sum total of all error messages exceeds a
> >specified amount, that's not 5k?  Not sure I have a full understanding here.
> >
> >        I know some services, such as "Juno," appears to have a limited storage
> >space for their subscribers, which I am not sure, but the last time I
> >checked, it was something over 60k.  However, the last few days, I have been
> >getting error messages from an account on "Yahoo" that has limited space of
> >5k?
>
> No, you mis-read the message.
>
> Yahoo's quota is (I think) 3 Mbytes (you can check for sure at
> http://mail.yahoo.com )
>
> >        Notice below, at the last line of the error message, that since the original
> >message is over 5k in length, it gets truncated to 1k.
>
> If you'd sent a "short" message, it would have spit it all back at you with
> the error.  Since your message was "long", it truncated the quoted-back part
> *in the error message* to 1K.  (This seems to me to be a reasonable treatment
> rather than to always or never send back the whole message quoted, at least
> in the absence of DSN implementation on both sides.)
>
> If the user had been under quota, (s)he would have received your whole
> message.
>
> BTW, the 60k you remember for Juno was (is?) a per-message limit, not a
> quota.
>
> [snip]
>
> >        Sounds like this is going to be more work for listowners in the long run if
> >some of the services, such as juno.com, yahoo.com, etc.. start crunching down
> >on their storage space.
>
> I don't think there's any crunching going on; however, mail volume probably
> continues to increase, and junk like HTML in mail eats up quotas much more
> rapidly.
>
> Cheers,
> Stan


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