On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Lars Noodin wrote:
E-Mail is not an acceptable surrogate for a networked filesystem.
Regards
-Lars
All right, I've had enough of your tilting at windmills. This battle
has been fought and lost already. E-mail is the de facto way to
collaborate, and that includes collaborating with documents and
files. If you weren't supposed to send or receive binary attachments,
e-mail clients wouldn't allow it (nor MTAs, for that matter). Even
UNIX command line e-mail clients have had this capability for... what,
decades? Stop crying about your made-up rules that the protocol
standards don't seem to agree with.
There are a bunch of neat products out there that can strip _large_
attachments off and place them on a secure webserver, but these are
not a reasonable way to send _every_ attachment.
Some system administrators believe it's their place to tell entire
companies how they should do everything. These administrators tend to
not be very employable.
--
bk
