Electronic Mail Netiquette

What's the Problem?

• E-mail is built on text-only foundation

• Modern GUI mail programs use "attachments", often hide real size

• Inefficient; size balloons (binary -> base64), multiple copies

• We still have limits: network bandwidth, mail spool size

• Other mail servers don't allow large files (varies); bounces will fill our spool

• Can bring servers to their knees.