One service that may be of interest for situations like this is Driveway
(www.driveway.com). They offer 25mb of free storage space available
from the Web (you can buy more), and the space can be shared (you can
also put a password on it). In Windows 98/2000, you can even set up a
"Web folder" in Explorer, which lets you treat the remote storage space
like a Windows share.
I'd LOVE to see more people using that rather than email for big files.
Some email clients are really lame about handling large attachments
(ahem, Outlook, cough), and they get bogged down encoding/decoding the
attachment in the foreground.
shag
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hardie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri 28 Apr 2000 13:02
Subject: Re: "Multi-RCPT vs. Single RCPT delivery" - logic error?
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andy Bradford wrote:
>
> > I may be rehashing old topics, and I may sound a little bit old
> > fashioned (even at age 26), but I don't believe email was ever meant
to
> > handle that large amount of traffic. Or, in other words SMTP != FTP
> > I am still of the opinion that one should instruct users to use the
> > right protocols for the right reasons. Hence, put the 10MB
PowderPoint
> > file in a public or private ftp directory and then include a URL to
> > fetch it in the email.
>
> I agree with this sentiment, but it's becoming increasingly difficult
to
> find good ways to enforce it. Case in point: we do web development
for an
> organization that has a PR firm develop brochures and then send them
to us
> for posting on their website. The files are often 7-10 MB in size,
large
> enough to be cumbersome for e-mail, small enough to make overnighting
a
> ZIP disk seem a little excessive.
>
> The organization hosts their site with us, and so we could obviously
> instruct them to upload the files through FTP, but the PR firm
shouldn't
> necessarily be able to do this. It gets more complicated when you
think
> that it's not always going to be the same person at the PR firm
sending
> the files, and that there are many cases where other third parties
need to
> send us materials related to the site.
>
> Clearly it's a complicated issue, but it seems that as broadband
access to
> the net becomes more common, businesses are going to expect to be able
to
> use one "interface" to do all their communications, be it plain text
> messages or large multi-megabyte file transfers. I cringe every time
> someone sends me a 7 MB mail message, but it's difficult to explain to
> them why this is a bad idea.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone's found a good general solution to
> this in a production/business environment.
>
> Chris
>
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