On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Tim Mooney wrote:
Not until/unless you start dealing with single messages that are larger
than 2GB. It will be a while before people start wanting to do that. :)
We're still not allowing individual messages larger than 25 MiB, so we're
safe for now...
Yeah, even Gmail limits to 35MB.
Even if the promise of universal 50Mbit/s broadband comes to pass, a 2GB
Godzillagram would take a minimum of several minutes to transmit at
(unobtainable) optimum performance with no other traffic.
If SMTP is a suitable mechanism to transmit 2GB hunks of data, that begs
the question of why we need bittorrent... ;)
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