[geeks] Gmail's attraction

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2004-09-06 18:13, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> My main thing against email attachments is when it is used wholesale,
> and for large files.  This is especially bad when it happens inside a
> company, since there is no reason for it at all then.

It is especially bad when $person sends an email with a multi-megabyte Word
monstrosity (say, "latest version of project specs") to everyone in a
project team. Assuming that most people do not throw away their (groupware)
email anytime soon, that means you may end up with multiple copies of said
humongous document on your *mail* server.

Multiply this by the number of revisions of the document, and by the number
of projects going on, and it becomes clear that sending an email saying,
"Hi, team! I've put a new revision of the specs in the projects share!"
would be quite a bit more efficient.

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