> From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:07:26 -0700
>
> I have customers who regularly send 100+MB attachements.
>
> Email is the most convenient way for them to do this.
> Especially with a local SMTP server in their network.
>
> Why waste time tyring to convince them otherwise?
We have a customer who's internet connection kept getting unusably slow. It
turned out that they had several employees who thought that email was a great
way to pass pornography around. Because the spooler was on the LAN, it seemed
fast to them, so they didn't realize they were clogging the pipe by emailing
dirty pictures to a dozen friends (each at different servers, so no redesign
of qmail could solve the problem). In this case, the solution was to have
their management tell them not to do that, but if it had been legitimate data,
the solution would have been to use an FTP server.
email may be convenient, but that just means that other paths aren't
convenient enough. It would be better to have a common folder on everyone's
desktop where they could drop the files. This even works across the internet,
if you're a Mac user and have a (free) account on mac.com, you can mount a
folder from there on your desktop to drop things on and any other mac.com user
can mount it to read your files. That's more convenient than sending email,
and much more efficient.
Chris
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