On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Ed Hallett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed@teltech.net.au" target="_blank">ed@teltech.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This may not be the best forum for this… But I’m actually looking at reducing email size limits to force users into using technologies designed for file sharing and governance – Sharepoint, Skydrive Pro, etc. Reducing limits to 5MB has all sorts of flow on effects – not even talking about freeing up link bandwidth, Exchange store sizes, etc.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's 2013. Email *is* designed for file sharing - that's why every email client has an "attach file" button on it, and why we have protocols like MIME.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The "email wasn't designed for ..." argument fits in the same category as arguments like "TCP wasn't designed for Video", and "HTTP wasn't designed for Social Media". Technically true, but pointless if that's what your 'customers' want to use it for!</div>
<div><br></div><div> Scott.</div></div>