Cheers to that and well said! Jim
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Brian Keefer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 20, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Lars Noodin wrote: > >> E-Mail is not an acceptable surrogate for a networked filesystem. >> >> Regards >> -Lars >> >> > > All right, I've had enough of your tilting at windmills. This battle > has been fought and lost already. E-mail is the de facto way to > collaborate, and that includes collaborating with documents and > files. If you weren't supposed to send or receive binary attachments, > e-mail clients wouldn't allow it (nor MTAs, for that matter). Even > UNIX command line e-mail clients have had this capability for... what, > decades? Stop crying about your made-up rules that the protocol > standards don't seem to agree with. > > There are a bunch of neat products out there that can strip _large_ > attachments off and place them on a secure webserver, but these are > not a reasonable way to send _every_ attachment. > > Some system administrators believe it's their place to tell entire > companies how they should do everything. These administrators tend to > not be very employable. > > -- > bk
