{"id":345,"date":"2002-11-26T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighnet.org\/wordpress\/?p=345"},"modified":"2002-11-26T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2002-11-26T09:54:16","slug":"e-mail-attachments-the-next-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gator3134.temp.domains\/~raleigh2\/2002\/11\/26\/e-mail-attachments-the-next-new-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Mail Attachments &#8212; The Next New Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologymarketing.com\/mc\/content\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1752490\">musings<\/a> on the growing popularity of sending e-mail attachments. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t notice this is increasing. I&#8217;ve been getting overly large attachments since I was a wee little information consumer. Certainly less experienced users generally think nothing of pushing multi-megabyte files through struggling mail servers, and even mail admins who <i>should<\/i> know better have sent me 4 or 5 meg files (much to my surprise). I can see where that could grow to be a problem\/pain for the network techs, but I don&#8217;t believe that the users will ever see a problem\/need to change. <\/p>\n<p>Schrage&#8217;s speculation that something to deal with and push attachments around may be the next IM\/Gaming platform offers some interesting avenues of speculation, but I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s going to happen. Most of the people sending these files have no concept of the need to worry about attachment size. I mean, even if they did have some understanding, most of the time they don&#8217;t even know how big the files are, and most clients I&#8217;ve worked with don&#8217;t provide a lot of help\/feedback in that department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting musings on the growing popularity of sending e-mail attachments. I don&#8217;t notice this is increasing. I&#8217;ve been getting overly large attachments since I was a wee little information consumer. 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