Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwai.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwai!tom From: tom@uwai.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: mail and disk quotas Message-ID: <170@uwai.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 00:47:46 EST Article-I.D.: uwai.170 Posted: Tue Dec 4 00:47:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:48:00 EST References: <6183@brl-tgr.ARPA> <302@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 17 > The mail spool is a particular nuisance as other users can > force someone over quota by blasting mail at them. > I haven't had it happen here but I would assume that > mail starts falling off the floor. How does this happen? Don't tell me you put quotas on /usr!!! People's stuff queued up in /usr/spool/* shouldn't affect their disk quotas as long as you haven't gone and done this questionable thing. tom -- Tom Christiansen University of Wisconsin Computer Science Systems Lab ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom tom@wisc-ai.arpa