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Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Rob Beard wrote:On 29/04/10 22:52, Eion MacDonald wrote:On 29/04/2010 20:25, Julian Hall wrote:me: Uh, no in kilobytes? cmr: How do I find out?Ah ha! memories One company I worked with in 1995 had all traffic locked. Company systems down. A director had tried to send a document, over 60MB in size, and his comment. "email is to send documents isn't it!".In those days we had to have ISP disengage the account, destroy and thenrestart! Educate users to know how they can play before giving them toys with which to play.I had that recently, well about a year ago with a customer. They wondered why their holiday snaps didn't send (all 600MB of them!).Well they would send, just not very quickly on a 1 Meg ADSL line with 256Kbit upload (of which 128Kbit was already used).It's an interesting conundrum... But I think it mostly boils down to lack of education (or wanting to learn). Your average consumer these days can have a 10mp camera producing 3-4MB image files, email, and broadband, and has never been told anything about the time/size factor in it all. Some email system still limit incoming emails to 10MB in size (bt/yahoo?) I actually restrict my own emails to 50MB after some problems I had a while back and don't get me started on customer email systems and Outlook... Got some clients whos pop3 times out even when they're on an 8Mb line due to the amount of email they get from friends who think nothing of attaching videos...Ah well, and they say that's progress for you... Gordon
Yup! Progress in computing is a strange thing:If someone took each letter* and packed it in a large packing case and then into a truck to be individually delivered to lots of recipients (who don't want to read it anyway) on an ever widening M25 people would think that the most stupid thing ever but that's what's happening. * oh and several large packing cases for things already known like address etc. And then people buy larger and larger trucks form people offering 'solutions'...
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