It could be worse... We had a customer support group with about 6 or so agents. They needed to email reports out to clients. Each and every agent was cc:'d on each message. Nothing was to be deleted... We nearly choked! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 [email protected] P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof.
"John Aldrich" <[email protected]> wrote on 02/23/2010 09:54:08 AM: > Only problem is that email really is not designed to be a file > transfer/storage medium. Sure it can be *used* that way, but it > seems to cause more problems than it solves. I think we ought to > just teach people how to use FTP and give them CuteFTP or something > easy like that and let them use that to transfer files to their > heart?s content. Granted we?d have to make sure they didn?t transfer > copyrighted files or proprietary / confidential company data, but > you still have to worry about that in email? J > > [image removed] [image removed] > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:46 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Stupid user tricks! > > Big can of worms there..... > On 23 February 2010 15:41, John Hornbuckle <[email protected] > > wrote: > This is a classic battle between users and sysadmins. > > Although I do occasionally wonder if we shouldn?t reconsider our > stance and give users more flexibility in how they use e-mail. Maybe > if they want to use e-mail for file transfers and storage, we shouldlet them? > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > > From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:30 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Stupid user tricks! > > I just had to talk to a user who?d tried to send himself two > messages with 13 megs of attachments on each email. And he was > wondering why his POP email was timing out! GAH! Stupid Users? Email > is NOT designed for transferring files? </RANT> > > Sorry? had to get that off my chest! > > [image removed] [image removed] > > > > > > NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written > communications to or from this entity are public records that will > be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail > communications may be subject to public disclosure. > > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > could provoke such a question." > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
