It was not the best start to a Monday morning. When Chris K. got in, the entire IT department was in full-panic mode because the Linux mail server that he administered was unresponsive.
The cause:
After a few hours in the cramped meeting room, Chris finally worked out what happened. On the prior Friday, a program manager had been trying to send a 76MB file to several people on the west coast via email. This, naturally, caused him to hit the imposed 10MB per message size limit.
The story goes down hill from there.
Seriously folks, stop sending attachments. Use any one of the numerous free services such as Dropbox or SkyDrive for posting your documents online then sending a link via e-mail.
Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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