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Originally Posted by richy240
I work in IT,
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As do I. Specifically as an email sysadmin for a university.
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I think email without attachments would be a real headache when you need to transfer a file quickly and easily.
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But, if there was an easy to manage, and easy to use, file server technology (there are a few that come close, but none that are perfect), and if users would just bother to use the correct tool for the job at hand, then there wouldn't be a headache when email attachments aren't allowed.
Something like WebDav* with OpenID and ACLs, perhaps. Or if Google Docs allowed you to store _any_ document type (even the ones it can't directly display/edit), and "mount" a given shared space via WebDav, and share with non-Gmail accounts (I think it can do the latter, but not the former 2), then I think that would work. Especially if there were more solid WebDav as a file system drivers for Linux and Mac (so that you don't necessarily have to download the file from Google Docs, you could just treat it like a folder in Finder/etc.).
(* WebDav == Windows "Web Folders")
But, for now, I'll just have to dream.