[ILUG] email as file transfer

[Ole Tange]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Stephen Reilly wrote:

> > Email _is_ used for file transfer. People expect to be able to attach even
> > 100 MB files to emails. And why shouldn't they?
>
> Why can't they just place the 100Mb file either in an accessible area
> of their network or on a webserver and just provide a link to it in
> mail?

That would mean that they had to have access to a webserver and have to
learn how to put stuff there. For you and me that is easy, but if you only
use this funtionality 5 times a year you forget how to do it and will in
practice have to learn it all over again each time. In my case the teacher
would have been me. Not wanting to waste my time on that I made sure they
could send large emails (usually the large mails were to a printing
company).

If you send email on a daily basis and attach files once a week, you will 
know how to do this. And it is then up to us (as technicians) to make sure 
things do as they should. For example we could give low bandwidth priority 
to email larger than 100 kb.


/Ole
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