[WinMac] Attached files [WAS:Re: HTML,MIME,PLAIN TEXT,BASE64 ETC.:bottom line please!]

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:24:54 -0400

        That's one of the few good things about Exchange Server: Large email
attached files are handled quite smoothly. Just be sure to turn OFF
(override) quotas for the accounts that handle these attachments.

        For small LAN's (under 50 users) I turn off quotas anyway, and simply toss
in a large pair of drives to handle the load. After all, artificial limits
to technology shouldn't be used unless there's a *really* good reason to
need them, such as at a public ISP or college server to prevent obvious
abuse. But with U2W (LVD) SCSI at about $500 for 18 gigs (~30 per gig),
it's often cheaper to add disk space rather than buy a disk quota manager!

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 08:51 AM 10/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>"Robert F. Crean" wrote:
>>
>> Both Bruce Johnson and Leonard Rosenthol kindly responded to my question
>> about all of different options for sending Email and attachments. Thank
>> You!
>>
>> Now, how about a bottom line? We send and receive email and lots of jpeg
>> photos. Thats it.
>>
>> If I set up ALL copies of OE and Netscape (both platforms) to send email
>> using plain text, and for attachments, Base 64, and where possible ask our
>> clients to do the same, will that work? I mean is that the thing to do?
>
>We receive a lot of files daily and we always try to encourage our
>clients to NOT use email. Attached files to email have to be encoded
>and then decoded and of course email was designed to send plain text
>messages, not huge binary files. Now I don't mind getting a small file
>via email but when there's a lot of them or they are large 2MB or
>greater then FTP is really the way to go.
>
>Uploading files via anonymous FTP can be done with Netscape (I don't
>know about IE) which most everyone can figure out how to use with a few
>instructions. FTP clients can usually be had for free and are not much
>harder to figure out and better still because you can upload many files
>at once. Anonymous FTP with Netscape can only do one at a time. Of
>course a zip or stuffit file can fix that.
>
>I even went the extra step and setup a CGI script on our web site to
>where anyone with a web browser can upload 5 files at a time to us. The
>files then land in our FTP directory and we ask them to fill out an
>on-line work order. Even a computer idiot can figure it out (though I
>admit I still get a phone call a couple of times a month.)
>
>Check it out at our web site http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ . Click on
>the upload link to get to the page with the CGI script. I also have
>instructions for anonymous ftp with netscape and for a FTP client.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
> http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ Medical Center Blvd
> Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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