Comments on: The Email Attachment Problem and How We’re Not Solving It

By: Simplifying Email

Simplifying Email — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:01:26 +0000

[...] file-sharing services for sending large documents. There are lots of such services, and new ones are popping up all the time, including Fluxiom and FileShareHQ. And Dropbox and the [...]

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:00:27 +0000

You should try using LeapFILE.

Although it is a web based service like those of YSI and dropbox, LeapFILE’s products and services are more business oriented with enhanced security features and options, but just as easy to use as regular email clients. Also LeapFILE just annouced the official release of Desktop and Outlook Plugin that would work seamlessly with Microsoft office applications.

You can also send directly through the Desktop client without having to open up your email or a new web browser. Check out the website for more information: http://www.leapfile.com/Solutions/Desktop-Client

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive YouSendIt Pursues Integration Strategy «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive YouSendIt Pursues Integration Strategy « — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:00:08 +0000

[...] 9th, 2008 (11:00am) Mike Gunderloy No Comments When we looked at the landscape of file-sharing, one of our main concerns was that none of the available file-sharing services provided a [...]

By: Nick Usala

Nick Usala — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:50:42 +0000

I’ve been using http://www.boltfile.com for a while now – they allow sending of up to 2GB in size – with a cool dropbox feature that allows you to brand the service with your own logos and colors! :)

nick

By: 網絡集錦 « Alan Poon’s Blog

網絡集錦 « Alan Poon’s Blog — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:30 +0000

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By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:20:17 +0000

I always try to suggest people who send big attachments to use something like drop.io (which I adopted because of its being simple).
But still many people know e-mail only, they seem to completely miss the “web side” of the net.

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Acrobat.com - Game Changer or Me Too? «

Web Worker Daily » Archive Acrobat.com - Game Changer or Me Too? « — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:00:36 +0000

[...] component goes beyond the sort of simple web-based attachment replacement that we recently took a skeptical look at to include embedding a Flash preview of documents in your own web [...]

By: Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for May 31, 2008

Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for May 31, 2008 — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:19:44 +0000

[...] The Email Attachment Problem and How We’re Not Solving It – Judi Sohn For within the business the solution to the attachment hell is creating some kind of repository (whatever works for you, maybe project/product related) and put everything in there. Link to the repo from your email. Easy enough. [...]

By: Lawrence Salberg

Lawrence Salberg — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:41:19 +0000

You missed Zenbe which has completely solved the very problem you lament. The email attachment problem is no longer. They are still in private beta (I think) but you must try it. I haven't posted a full review on my blog yet, but I'm referring to it as "the Gmail killer". Next problem?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:19:01 +0000

I can't remember how many times a large Word doc got screwed up because multiple versions of the same file were floating around through email. We used the OnStage File Vaults feature to solve this problem. I use a "free" version of these web-type softwares to exchange files with family. It drives me crazy when my inbox gets clogged up with a million photos.

By: Jeff Barson

Jeff Barson — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:52:35 +0000

Er… you’re all invited to open up a free Sendside Account: No spam. No Phishing. Free files up to 100MB, unlimited for business. ProfileLink,and it works with your existing email address. Best of all it’s free – which is a terrific price.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:17:07 +0000

It’s not the attachments that bother me so much as the people who CC my email address to a million people I don’t know.

Emails with stupid animated gifs I can delete, but spam and potential viruses from having my email address passed around to every man and his dog bothers me no end.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:06:18 +0000

Even better? You can kill the idea of ‘attaching files with reckless abandon’ altogether by collaborating online. I know sending attachments is a tough habit to break, but I think those days are numbered. As we shift towards online sharing, storage, collaboration for everyhting (documents, photos, video, etc)- all you should have to do is send your friends/family/coworkers a url the file or an invitation to a collaboration folder where they can participate in the sharing.

Take good care,

Kendra
Box.net

By: John

John — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:06:20 +0000

I’m torn on this actually.

For many, many, many years I was unapologetically opposed to most attachments over, say, 40k. I had a small hard drive, I kept my mail archives on my computer, I hated big bloated mail archives. I had procmail set up to reject messages with attachments over a certain size (I think 500k was my limit, I forget now).

Since converting to GMail I’m a little more tolerant of the practice. In fact it’s sometimes nice to have newsletter and such at my fingertips in my GMail. There are pluses to attachments.

However I still respect others. I never send pictures, instead I pay $20 a year for an extra 10 GB of storage on Picasaweb. Almost every ISP on the planet offers space for a website. I stick PDF files and whatnot there for people to download.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:16:02 +0000

This is solving the wrong problem – the real solution is for people to move more of their workflow and interactions to web apps, particularly wikis and blogs. Once people get used to attaching a file to a wiki page, particularly for less transient files, they really like it – and their friends can use RSS etc to pick up on the new postings.

This is a cultural change but email’s real downside is not full inboxes, but the flurry of inefficient communication that can’t be turned into shared knowledge.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:21:01 +0000

I’m relieved that I’m not the only one who has thrown hands up in defeat. WWD will of course continue looking for file sharing nirvana because, well, that’s what we do. But I’m not hopeful that any outside-the-inbox solution will prove to be worth the hassle of changing mindsets.

It’s like the gorgeous, new car with all the best features is parked a mile up the hill…so folks will continue to ride around in their beat-up jalopy that gets them from Point A to Point B and nothing more simply because it’s parked outside their door. :-)