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Email Parcel Post is Good!
From: "Cutler, James R" <james.cutler () eds com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 08:13:18 -0400
Various people are alleged to have said things like: "file transfer by email is evil" ========================================================= Business Response: "Parcel Post" is just as valid for electronic media as it is for physical media. Of course it would be stupid, most of the time, to use email to transfer the Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (~100 Megabytes), but it can be done. (It truth, I have never mailed an attachment larger than 50 Megabytes.) The business arguments for casual exchange of documents using email are, I believe, strong. Creation of an FTP site or a Web site is NOT a good idea for the casual user, even ignoring the difficulty of explaining how to make one work using a transient IP address. Security and support are difficult enough today without adding that complication. Arbitrarily denying the use of email for file transfer is, in and of itself, tortuous interference with legitimate business of others. - James R. Cutler - EDS 800 Tower Drive, Troy, MI 48098 1 248 265 7514 james.cutler () eds com
Current thread:
- Email Parcel Post is Good! Cutler, James R (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! E.B. Dreger (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Andrew Brown (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Jim Mercer (May 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Owen DeLong (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Saint skullY the Dazed (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Jamie Norwood (May 25)
- RE: Email Parcel Post is Good! Roeland Meyer (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Andrew Brown (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Steve Sobol (May 26)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Andrew Brown (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! E.B. Dreger (May 25)