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Re: [LUG] Small Magazine

 

> Neil Stone wrote:
>
>> Right tool for the job is whats needed.. Why people insert a jpeg image
>> in
>> a word file and send it that way i'll never know.. just send the .jpg
>> file
>> damnit.. </rant>
>>
>>
>
> Or in my case, some of the users I support just take a screen print (or
> BMP file) paste it in Word and then e-mail it out to me.
>
> Worse offender though sent out a 27MB Powerpoint presentation to the
> whole of one site.  The problem with this is the mail server is located
> in Bristol so that was 27MB going up the WAN and then down the WAN
> (which is 2MBit) to about 30 users.
>
> I've lost count of how many times I've told them to put the files on the
> local file server and just e-mail the location of the server.
>
> Rob
>

Only to 30 people ? thats boring.. we have around 60 people.. in Plymouth
office alone.. and about another 40 in Exeter..

Thankfully we have a 10mb cap on emails, but 9.9mb * 100 users = 99mb

Exeter are on ADSL... great...


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