Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

[Dick St.Peters]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Unfortunately, for most of the Internet users of today, the availability
> of long-term stable externally-reachable storage is low enough that you
> usually end up dereferencing a null pointer.....

It doesn't have to be that way.  We'll set up an anonymous FTP site
for any user who requests one, at no additional charge.  These sites
have upload capability and are protected from being used as warez
sites.

In other words, that user I wouldn't let receive a 28 MB message had
an appropriate alternative available.

The problem, at least from my perspective, is not large transfers.  It
is mixing large transfers into a service (email) that most people
expect to deliver small messages rapidly.

The problem is compounded by most users not having any idea what a MB
is.  Telling them their mailbox is clogged by a 2MB message conveys
nothing to them, but tell them it is clogged by a 25,000-line message
and they understand.

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Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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