> ... involves sending binary email attachments (executables and > compiled tables) and, because of the increasingly aggressive mail > scanning carried out by many companies, I now as a matter of course > place the files on a webserver and send only the URL ...,
Tell me about it. I've had it just about up to here with "please send me <X> as an email attachment" only to get .. A) a "mail rejected because you can't send that attachment" note from the recipient's server B A phone call the next day as asking why I didn't send it, the server NOT having sent me such a note. C) Asking recipient to check his corporate "spam trap" and when finding the mail only to be a told "no way" he/she can release it from the trap so could I please rename the attachments with different file extensions and send again.. D) Having done <C>, getting another phone call during which I learn the 'spam trap' is "smart" (ha-ha-ha!) enough to see right past file extensions into the "deadly" content I have sent.... the same "deadly" content I was ASKED to send because the customer needs it. I guess end-user training on "how to use your corporate email account" doesn't include a chapter on "our spam traps" or "prohibited attachments (inbound)." MCM ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
