Steve Lamb: > > Ooooohhhhhh... You mean make it easy for idiot users to send large > > attachments through a medium that wasn't designed for it, shouldn't be > > used in that manner, and causes more problems than is needed with each > > step of the way. > > If I were to do it I'd have the email client teach them how to send a > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^%$# URL.
Hamish Moffatt: > Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology (within > reason); the technology should allow users to send huge email attachments > if they need to. Otherwise it should be fixed. The operative word being `need to'. It'd be a very good feature indeed if the e-mail client checked the size of the message and said, when appropriate, something along the lines of "this is an unusually large message by Internet standards; are you sure? (y/N)" and popped up a wizard for other ways of transferring the file. It's one thing to send Christmas gifs to people that are a couple of hundred bytes long; it's quite a different story when it's a huge, uncompressed bitmap which does exactly the same job. Sadly, in most e-mail clients either would be just a filename, with no immediate indication of how big it really is. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
