In regard to: Re: [Imap-uw] slow IMAP connection, Mark Crispin said (at...:

If SMTP is a suitable mechanism to transmit 2GB hunks of data, that begs
the question of why we need bittorrent... ;)

Based on how I see people use email these days, there's frankly some truth
to that.  I dearly wish our campus had deployed some kind of decent
"digital drop box" software and then trained our customers in how to use
it.  It's too late for that now; people have already become accustomed to
using email as the sole method for digital file distribution.

Tim
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