Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:29:21PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > > What user creates a 50 MB document anyway? > > A PowerPoint presentation with more than 50 slides and lots of > pictures. PowerPoint, the modern crutch on which hangs the gangly > corpse of a substanceless presentation. Witness,

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-04 Thread Hidong Kim
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Hi Hidong, > > What user creates a 50 MB document anyway? A PowerPoint presentation with more than 50 slides and lots of pictures. PowerPoint, the modern crutch on which hangs the gangly corpse of a substanceless presentation.

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-04 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Hidong, > Excuse this off-topic post. At our company of about 30 people, there > are some who insist on sending e-mails with huge attachments, like 20-50 > MB. Yes, megabytes. They'll send these e-mails to everyone in the > company and also to clients. I've suggested that w

RE: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Gregory Hosler
y, January 03, 2002 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: really big e-mails > > > Dave Reed wrote: >> >> >> I've seen it cripple a Solaris mail server when someone (on the IT >> staff no less, but not the person in charge of the Unix machin

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Hidong Kim
Thanks, all! Dave Ihnat wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:00:03AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > > But back to the technical problem, how does sending e-mails to multiple > > people eat up more bandwidth than placing the e-mail in a directory > > for download? Assuming that all of the reci

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:00:03AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > But back to the technical problem, how does sending e-mails to multiple > people eat up more bandwidth than placing the e-mail in a directory > for download? Assuming that all of the recipients of the e-mail > are interested in reading

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 11:00 AM 1/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Dave Reed wrote: > > > > > > I've seen it cripple a Solaris mail server when someone (on the IT > > staff no less, but not the person in charge of the Unix machines) > >I can sympathize with this situation. I'm actually the VP of Ops at our >company. I've

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Reed
, January 03, 2002 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: really big e-mails > > > Dave Reed wrote: > > > > > > I've seen it cripple a Solaris mail server when someone (on the IT > > staff no less, but not the person in charge of the Unix mac

RE: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Michael R. Dilworth
Read up on uuencode... Binary attachments are encoded. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hidong Kim Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: really big e-mails Dave Reed wrote

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Hidong Kim
Dave Reed wrote: > > > I've seen it cripple a Solaris mail server when someone (on the IT > staff no less, but not the person in charge of the Unix machines) I can sympathize with this situation. I'm actually the VP of Ops at our company. I've also defaulted to doing the Linux sysadmin (prett

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > Excuse this off-topic post. At our company of about 30 people, there > are some who insist on sending e-mails with huge attachments, like 20-50 > MB. Yes, megabytes. They'll send these e-mails to everyone in the > company and also to clients.

Re: OT: really big e-mails

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:39:18AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > Excuse this off-topic post. At our company ..., there > are some who insist on sending e-mails with huge attachments, like 20-50 > MB. ... They'll send these e-mails to everyone in the > company and also to clients. ... My question