I realize that email does a lot of stuff it wasn’t designed to do, however, some things it does better than others. Transferring a large amount of files is not something it does well. Transferring smaller files is something it does well. Heck, it wasn’t designed to support “web data” but that’s something Microsoft has made it do fairly well (that’s a double-edged sword, from a security stand point! <G>)
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! I definitely agree that that’s not what e-mail was designed for. But e-mail wasn’t designed to do a lot of the things that people now do with it. Heck, just look at that pretty picture in your signature. :-) E-mail is easy-to-use and ubiquitous. That’s why people transfer files with it. I’m of the mindset that we should adapt the technology to meet the users’ needs (or, in some cases, desires) rather than forcing users to adapt to the technology. My users will have a heck of a tougher time transferring files via FTP than via e-mail. John From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! 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 John-AldrichTile-Tools 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 should let 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! John-AldrichTile-Tools 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." 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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