Sarah
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Cambridge, MA
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Re: Stupid
said by DaMaGeINC  :
Gmail is another stupid product of the internet. 1gig of email. What a waste of space. 1 email msg is like 2k, from a friend. Hi, bye, write back, is about all. After you read that, you delete it and move on. So whats the point of 1gig?
Some people transfer many large files via e-mail, and like to keep copies of everything. I do this at work so when someone calls up and complains, I can go back 2 months and verify who said what and when about which file.
I have over a gig of stored e-mails on my work PC.
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DaMaGeINC
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clubs: | I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it? |
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Sarah
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| said by DaMaGeINC :
I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it?
We offer web and FTP uploads/downloads, and we accept zip disks and CD-R, but for most idiots clients, it's simpler to attach it to an e-mail, so that's what they do. And I end up with many megs in my inbox. Shrug.
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koitsu
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Because most Internet inhabitants are lazy bastards. Durr hurr hurr, let's send this screen saver I found on some back-water website to all members of the company! Hurr hurr!
Reminds me of an employee at Best Internet shortly before my employment there. Apparently he came across some Win32 application called "BRAINTEST.EXE", and after playing with it, decided it would be intelligent to send it as an attachment to all the members of the company. If I remember correctly, the executable was about 3MBytes.
The end result is that he managed to crash the internal SMTP server intended for employee mail -- the disks filled, and (at the time) sendmail wasn't very nice about handling out-of-disk errors.
After the SAs figured out what the hell was going on and proceeded to empty out the queue, only one employee responded to the Email. All he said was:
"Looks like someone failed the test..."
There's a reason all SMTP servers let administrators configure what the maximum permitted MIME attachment size is, you know. And there's a reason administrators are continually DECREASING that maximum.
Like you, I too think Gmail is worthless. It's going to become spammer central, especially with disk space like that. Think of all the space spammers will have for bouncebacks. That's all spammers use Hotmail for, by the way. It's all automated...
Google's just trying to start a fight with Microsoft over services like Hotmail. I don't deny Google could do a better job (and I've WORKED at Hotmail!), but in lieu of all of Google's recent TOS changes and how anti-privacy they've become, I can safely say I really want nothing to do with Gmail.
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vic102482
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| said by koitsu :
After the SAs figured out what the hell was going on and proceeded to empty out the queue, only one employee responded to the Email. All he said was:
"Looks like someone failed the test..."
There's a reason all SMTP servers let administrators configure what the maximum permitted MIME attachment size is, you know. And there's a reason administrators are continually DECREASING that maximum.
Liek you said thats the fault of the administration. You are supposed to set those limits for a reason. Also number of recipents etc.etc.
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pcdebb
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said by DaMaGeINC :
I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it?
the casual user may not know other ways of transferring files (i.e. the n00b friend i have who likes to send huge files via email, this would be perfect for him) |
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sunburn1
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said by DaMaGeINC "I dont get it, thier are so MANY better ways to transfer files. Email is the slowest in my book, so why use it?"
You obviously have NO experience in a corporate environment.
So just what exactly is one of your many better ways to transfer word, ppt, pdf's and such to mailing lists or clients??
LoL or should I just laugh your foolish statement out of here. lolololololololololoolololololololololololoololololololololololololol |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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Greenville, SC
clubs: | Im not talking about little pictures and word documents. obviously email would be the best way to transfer small files. Im talking about 5-10Mb files. So please take your negativity somewhere else. |
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2kmaro
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Rather a repetitive answer, but I've dealt with many clients who simply were not FTP saavy, or else did not have access to FTP (corporate restrictions), or even to the WWW from within a corporate firewall. But I still needed to exchange large (4-8 MB) files with them. Email attachment was pretty much the only way. My Cox email system has a 5 MB limit on attachment size (actually more like 4.5MB) and that even pushed me into getting my own site with pretty much unlimited email size restrictions. But that overcame the 4.5MB limit but at a $$ cost. I'd have loved to have had this service for free back then.
But the point is almost moot for me now, since Cox now requires that ALL outgoing email go thru their server, once again nullifying alternate ability to send anything larger than a 4.5MB file.  :(
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DrTCP
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Round Rock, TX
| said by 2kmaro :
But the point is almost moot for me now, since Cox now requires that ALL outgoing email go thru their server, once again nullifying alternate ability to send anything larger than a 4.5MB file. :(
Don't you have Webmail with your webhost? You can use webmail to send those large attachments. If you also support IMAP, you can prepare the mail on your PC, put draft on IMAP folder on your webhost and just logon and send from your webhost. Some webhosts are now starting to offer altertate port for mail for those ISPs/corportations that block outgoing port 25. You may want to look into that as well. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | Well, I HAVE YOU ALL BEAT ON SECURITY. NO EMAIL IS THE BEST SECURITY. AMUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH |
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LrdVader
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join:2003-12-18
San Diego, CA
| said by DaMaGeINC :
Well, I HAVE YOU ALL BEAT ON SECURITY. NO EMAIL IS THE BEST SECURITY. AMUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Yeah, well, I have the most hacker-proof firewall in the world! It's called a pair of wire cutters!  |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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clubs: | OZ NOS, WELL. I HAVE L33T 56K MODEM, I AM AWSOME |
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insomx
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Canada | reply to LrdVader
Give me your IP addreess and we will find out how secure you are |
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pcscdma
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Winterset, IA
clubs: | 192.168.1.100 |
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Sarah
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| said by pcscdma :
192.168.1.100
OMG... you're posting from my wireless mp3 server! How the heck did you manage that?!
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
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clubs: | You better not post from my XBOX - 192.168.1.101 |
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Sarah
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Cambridge, MA
clubs: | I'm not posting from it, but I'm running an FTP server on it. |
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insomx
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Canada | Thoose are internal IP addresses, lol! |
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pcscdma
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Don't mess with my PGR 2 profile. |
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