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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
snippage for brevity
I once had a user complain that email she had sent to a remote company location wasn't getting through. She had attached a multi-megabyte attachment to an Outlook email. What she didn't know was that remote location connected to the main office via a 56K dial-up modem. I had to kill her message at the mail server, and tell her to burn it to a CD and send that by messenger to the location.
Even after broadband became ubiquitous, problems still arose. How big was the attachment? Could the recipient get an attachment that large? Don't assume that everyone can receive what you can send...
(I also had fun when a remote office sent mine Word and Excel files created in a more recent version of MS Office than the one we had deployed. We couldn't read them. I had to install personal copies if Word and Excel that could read them to Save As in a version the intended recipients could handle. Er, standards exist for reasons, folks. Isn't it about time we imposed some?  )
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Dennis
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Every. Day. I deal with this same discussion,
every. bloody. day.
We have a wee instruction, in numerous, numerous places on our website, in my emails, etc., telling people that they can send us files via eMail up to 15MB in size; that any larger than that, they need to use one of our uplinks (GUI FTPs), either Hightail or WeTransfer. Wanna take a guess
how many emails
a day I get, with removed attachments, because they exceeded the limits? Or how many people can't
SEND the emails, because it exceeds their ISP limits? It's a freaking nightmare.
I don't get it. I don't understand how you get into this century, still
cheerfully telling people, "oh, I'm not techie, tee-hee-hee." Wouldja brag about being unable to drive a car, pay your bills, feed yourself? Would that be funny, too?
And before anyone says, "oh, they're laughing because they're embarrassed," then, FFS, read a damn book. Take a course. Watch YT videos. The fundamentals are not rocket science. I mean, at LEAST learn how to see the size of a file, and what a damn FILE EXTENSION MEANS.
IDGI, I
really don't.
Hitch, aka

today