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Originally Posted by atelerix
As for the emailing of attachments, I find it to b to e a valuable productivity tool rather than a "blight." I guess it's all how you choose to use it. If Google or T-Mobile choose to limit this ability which most competing smartphones feature, it's going to cost them customers.
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Ok, let me rephrase part of that ... attachments are, like any other tool, neither a boon nor a blight. But, how they are used might be either of those.
In general, when people do things like: blindly attaching a word/excel/pdf/image/etc. document to a message, especially a message heading to a mailing list, instead of putting it into a secure repository that can be shared among the intended recipients (thus saving bandwidth, list archive storage space, individual user email storage space, etc.) ... and especially when such tools ARE available, but they are avoiding them out of pure laziness and lack of initiative to learn and use the proper tool for the job ... THAT is a blight upon the internet. And, in my observation, that accounts for the VAST majority of attachment use on the internet.
If I were king for a year, every mail server on the planet would block all attachments for the entirety of my tenure, to force people to adopt/develop file exchange methods that are more appropriate than email attachments, and ingrain them into their regular use.