OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mercredi 05 novembre 2008, vers 00:30, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait :
>> This kind of service is really useful for users that keep sending large
>> piece of data through mail servers and then complain that this does not
>> work. They need an easy service allowing to send large files without
>> learning something new (like a FTP client), which is almost as fast as
>> attaching a document to an email and provides the same privacy options
>> than an unencrypted email (so, uploading to a shared FTP is not an
>> option, unless you excessively tune the FTP server). Otherwise, they
>> will just keep sending files via mail.
> Sorry, that just smacks of "let's not bother educating users, let's add
> yet more packages instead". Besides, FTP is new and Fex is not ??? How
> about helping users see that sending a 40Gb PowerPoint document is not
> actually friendly - no matter how you send it? (You think I'm
> joking?!)
Where do you work? I can understand that "educate the users" could work
in some context (in an university for example) but in some other
contexts, it would just cost your job for trying to educate some
managers while a known technical solution exists (for example, in
France, the third ISP, Free, is using something like F*EX).
This kind of software is an answer to a real problem: how to transfer
files between non tech users. FTP is absolutely not a solution. It needs
a special client not available everywhere, it is difficult to secure
and it may be blocked by a lot of firewalls (or cannot pass a single one
if you try to add SSL on top of FTP).
> If it bothers the sysadmin that much, write code that strips the
> attachment and puts it onto a website or ftp server and attaches a
> comment to the email along the lines of how mailing list details are
> added to lots of other emails.
You are welcome to implement such a solution.
> Do we really need to waste our time on this kind of package when we
> should actually be trying to get Lenny out?
I agree with Ben on this one.
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