Re: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams

Hi, Per

2007/10/18, Per Jessen <per@computer.org>:
> Luis Hernán Otegui wrote:
>
> > We block .avi, .mp3, .mpg, etc. here, because we think it's a waste of
> > bandwith to share those extensions via email,
>
> Voicemail (from a mobile for instance) is quite often sent in .wav
> or .mp3 format, so we don't just plainly block those.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
>

Well, maybe in your country, but here in Argentina, voicemail is merely an utopic wish ;-).

Anyway, the Faculty I work for tries to keep the e-mail system only for research purposes, and mostly students and (sadly) technicians tend to goof around with mail. Bandwidth isn't cheap here, so they decided to straightly cut those extensions. Remember, the customer is always right...

Luis

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