Actually, in a business environment (at least at my former company) the mailings were large power point presentations and visio docs and such.. All perfectly legitimate traffic. The funny thing about this is that it was usually to folks in the same office who had access to (and used) a central server. It would have been just as easy to send out a pointer to the location of the doc and less destructive. Is there anyone here who has NOT had to go in a rescue a mailbox that was too large for the client to load? (And yes, this happened with pine, outlook express, and a couple of others.. not just a random here or there.) And dare I mention problems with POP servers and timeouts over low speed links? On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:45:13AM -0400, Robert Blayzor wrote:
Sorry, can't resist replying here. In my limited (7 years) experience, 99% of all large file transfers via e-mail consist of dancing babies, horny snowmen, clumsy reindeer/monkeys/people movie clips. Oh, did I mention the plethora of cutesy jack-o-lanterns around October 31st? I also find it remarkable that no one seems to protect these 'sensitive' documents with PGP or another encryption method since we all know that e-mail is in plain text. What were you saying about ftp being insecure?
Right, but let's not leave out the attchment honorable mentions, things like ILOVEYOU, Snowwhite, etc. ;-) Perfect example of how email attachments can start a wildfire.
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