If only there was some sort of protocol to transfer files. Even if it were a trivial one. You could even have a secure version.<div><br></div><div>- Geordie<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Mark Delany <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g2x@juliet.emu.st" target="_blank">g2x@juliet.emu.st</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> I've found that email enables poor habits.. Emailing a 10MB doc to the<br>
> user 2 rooms down via a hosted exchange? Floods the link twice, plus<br>
> stores the attachment in your local OST, the recipients local OST, and<br>
> two copies in the exchange store. Now, modify it, and send it back.<br>
> Ouch.<br>
<br>
</div>Why ouch? The network is serving the company, not the other way<br>
around. Bits and storage are cheap. People are expensive.<br>
<br>
People have moaned about the "mis-use" of email ever since MIME was<br>
invented. They did it again when HTML was sent over email and of<br>
course they routinely complained when the maximum payload went from<br>
2MB to 5MB to 10MB and now 25+MB.<br>
<br>
If email is such a terrible medium for getting things done, why have<br>
people persisted in abusing it for the last couple of decades?<br>
<br>
The simple answer is that it is pervasively available and works more<br>
consistently and simply than anything else. Skydrives, G-drives,<br>
dropbox, Exchange shares are all a terribly fragmenting<br>
experience. Put another way, our industry has failed to provide a<br>
compelling alternative.<br>
<br>
So your best course of action is to make sure their tool of choice<br>
works very well, all the time. The alternative of punishing "poor<br>
habits" to save a little computing infrastructure is a fool's errand.<br>
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<br>
Mark.<br>
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