E-mail is not designed to transfer large files
That's what I keep telling people, but the message never seems to get through. This morning one of the scientists here couldn't download any new e-mail. Imagine my (total lack of) surprise to find three messages with attachments totalling nearly 100MB in his mail file.
There is no easy solution to this one -- e-mail attachments are the path of least resistance (i.e., the one users will always take) when it comes to moving files around, and with all that info about who sent the file and when, an e-mail box makes a handy filing system too. No other file sharing method makes as much sense or is as painless, at least until your attachments start growing larger than three or four megabytes and they get lodged in the pipe between the mail server and your client.
I know, boring. But this is what I do all day. When I'm not, you know, blogging or whatever.
There is no easy solution to this one -- e-mail attachments are the path of least resistance (i.e., the one users will always take) when it comes to moving files around, and with all that info about who sent the file and when, an e-mail box makes a handy filing system too. No other file sharing method makes as much sense or is as painless, at least until your attachments start growing larger than three or four megabytes and they get lodged in the pipe between the mail server and your client.
I know, boring. But this is what I do all day. When I'm not, you know, blogging or whatever.
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