[sub] [Sussex] re:- Phil Turners last post

[Nicholas Butler]

Allowing Attachments in Emails....

Im personally of the view that this is the route to all evils and 
attachments should simply be banned on email as a delivery mechanism.

 If we could remove attachments from email and in place had a procedure  
that enabled a user to attach files but the outbound MTA stripped the 
attachmet and placed them in a secure location , availble to the 
recipient as a link.

In terms of ISO and British Standard the requirement to prove the 
current version and control over versions of a file is blown away when 
users email documents to each other. Especially interdepartmentally.  I 
keep seeing this go on and on in various businesses. Where a 100k file 
is attached to a email , so now it exists once on the server and once on 
the server in a users Sent Box. The File is now sent to 1 or more 
recipients. So now the file exists multiple times over and on various 
Servers and locations.

Ive tried to educate users to link to files inside emails and to use FTP 
and HTTP to enable them to share files with the outside world. However 
the Wonderful nature of MS's own killer App has Brain Damaged the users 
into not understanding where and how a file exists.




Viewing Zip files In modern Windows applications
Is very very easy since the user sees a Folder, not a file. and they see 
its contents so they can get into it quickly.

anyway thats all...