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Date:     Wed, 23 Jan 91 13:36:29 EST
From: Brinton Cooper <abc@BRL.MIL>
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 Thomas Lapp <thomas%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu> writes:

(Quoting abc)-

> >    2. Some users, especially university undergraduates, face severe
> > retrictions on the amount of disk storage they may occupy.  If the
> > discussion becomes particularly active and the user's mailbox grows
> > large, the total disk usage may exceed quota and the user will be denied
> > access to the account.
>
> If this happens, it is a failure in the mail package and/or operating
> system.  The system should never allow mail to fill to a point where
> the user cannot log onto his/her account.
>
> In all systems that I've worked with, even if the users disk space
> fills up, there are temp. workarounds...

This is a nice theory.  However, whether it SHOULD happen is not the
issue.  (Perhaps we SHOULD NOT be at war; however we ARE at war, for
example.)  Any distribution of this discussion should take into account
reality as we find it.

_Brint