Comments on: File Size Matters http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/02/28/file-size-matters/ Effective and Efficient Education Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Efficiency Tip #70 - No Attachments http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/02/28/file-size-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1432 Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Efficiency Tip #70 - No Attachments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:14:47 +0000 http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/?p=54#comment-1432 [...] are some efficiency issues. Here is part of a previous post on the subject: Do you realize the process involved in sending someone a file attachment. Since [...] [...] are some efficiency issues. Here is part of a previous post on the subject: Do you realize the process involved in sending someone a file attachment. Since [...]

]]> By: Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Efficiency Tip #69 - Zip http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/02/28/file-size-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-1372 Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Efficiency Tip #69 - Zip Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:12:55 +0000 http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/?p=54#comment-1372 [...] a previous post, I mentioned that file attachments are something you should avoid. There are times when they are [...] [...] a previous post, I mentioned that file attachments are something you should avoid. There are times when they are [...]

]]> By: John Schinker http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/02/28/file-size-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-78 John Schinker Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:15:15 +0000 http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/?p=54#comment-78 For people without an LMS for transferring files, one option is to use senduit (http://senduit.com/). Essentially, you upload a file, decide how long the file should be available online (30 minutes to one week), and it gives you a URL. Just send the URL via email, and the recipient can download the file. It's probably not a great idea for confidential information, and it does have a 100 MB limit, but it would help keep the attachment volume down. In my school district, we've considered implementing a system that intercepts email attachments larger than a defined size (4 MB, for example), uploads them to a file repository, and replaces the attachment in the email message with a link to the file. While this would solve the huge attachment problem, it does it by working around the users' irresponsible technology choices instead of teaching them how to use the technology more reasonably. I'm not sure that's a direction we want to head, so at the moment we just limit the message size at the server. For people without an LMS for transferring files, one option is to use senduit (http://senduit.com/). Essentially, you upload a file, decide how long the file should be available online (30 minutes to one week), and it gives you a URL. Just send the URL via email, and the recipient can download the file.

It’s probably not a great idea for confidential information, and it does have a 100 MB limit, but it would help keep the attachment volume down.

In my school district, we’ve considered implementing a system that intercepts email attachments larger than a defined size (4 MB, for example), uploads them to a file repository, and replaces the attachment in the email message with a link to the file. While this would solve the huge attachment problem, it does it by working around the users’ irresponsible technology choices instead of teaching them how to use the technology more reasonably. I’m not sure that’s a direction we want to head, so at the moment we just limit the message size at the server.

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