Inbox glut
June 3, 2003 - 10:27 pm
Am I the only one who doesn’t want to get 3 meg attachments of car crashes and cats in my inbox? Because when I get them and email the sender that it’s nicer to put the file up on a webpage and mail out URLs, I invariably get a hurt response or puzzled silence. A friend sent me something like 6 megs of movie files from Stile Project the other day while I was in Las Vegas. I was using my Sprint phone to check mail and it took me around 30 minutes to download that one message. That counts against my monthly cell phone usage, not to mention my mailbox quota.
Should I give up trying to tell people that it’s not nice to send huge files unsolicited (or is it?) and just ask them nicely not to send me jokes anymore?
June 3rd, 2003 at 11:50 pm
if you want to keep the friends, you gotta keep your mouth shut I’m afraid. Don’t forget that not everyone is as web-savvy as we are, with our fancy web pages, etc. My mom is doing good if she can send out an email without calling me for help. Consider that in their minds sharing their 30 meg QT file of their new puppy weeing on the carpet is an act of friendship and not meant to annoy.
June 4th, 2003 at 11:39 am
I disagree with JenBen. Simply sending a very politely worded “Hey! Consider doing it this way” message should not be considered a personal affront.
June 4th, 2003 at 2:24 pm
yeah, it SHOULD NOT but there are those that will be ticked and you know it.
July 1st, 2003 at 11:22 am
I agree with Kenn (through whose weblog I came here, by the way). If they are being friendly, they also should be aware that _that_ particular mode of being friendly is creating a bigger problem for you—it’s like they’re feeding your cat something the cat is allergic to, even though they meant it well. My main communication e-mail account has a 20 MB quota. Net. If someone sent a too-big file to that, s/he would get shouted at. Or warned, at least.