On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 14:19 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> A better way of getting the radiographic data or any other large file
> is for you to upload it to a Cloud or to a sharing service and then
> include a link to that in your email.

Yeah, that's convenient.   For me, just email it.

> Means the email itself is much lighter-weight and so it travels
> faster, less likely to get corrupted en-route, 

I haven't seen a corrupted message in a decade plus.

> less likely to get stripped off and less annoying for recipients that
> are only casually interested or are "away from keyboard" and just
> quickly browsing emails on hand-helds to see which need an urgent

No decent mobile device downloads attachments until they are
specifically requested - and then there it is, no link, no
authentication to yet another doofy service.  Attachment handling is
very much a solved problem.

> response and which can be left until getting to a decent machine with
> proper broadband.  

Dunno, that is exactly what happens for me using K-9 from my Android OS
phone; currently, with attachments.


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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA

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