Hello Dwight, >> you can hardly tell them that >> they or their mail contacts are morons (technically, of course you can, but >> you'll be doing it at jobs changing in a fast pace). >> If there are people sending me mails of 10, 20 or 30 MB (this are >> realistic sizes I have witnessed and I have no illusions regarding other >> people not seeing much bigger ones), there is no reason to have a column that >> contains 8 and more digits and be forced to count them in 3somes to find out >> the >> mail sizes.
> I read that you are saying you shouldn't tell them are morons, just > assume they are and treat them as such. You do not seem to read what I am saying. I say - your mail partners or users of your mail program do have a way of using their IT resources, be it by sending 50MB large mails. Unless you are their boss, it's not your job to tell them they should be using them in a way we think is more correct (you are free to think it, but that's about all). The conclusion is, big emails are reality and it is not helping to attempt to deny it when designing and developing software handling that data. It will only lead to lessened user comfort of senders or receivers by having their programs crash or display astronomic numbers where "MB" would be appropriate. How was this nice rule..."be strict about what you produce and benevolent about what you can handle"? -- Best regards, Viktor Kabelac mailto:[email protected] ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.0.22.15 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
