One More Tale to Tell

I was sitting on the couch a couple nights ago when my favorite e-mail attachment story hit me. I can't believe I forgot to include this nugget:

A user tells me he tried to send a message, but it was bounced because it exceeded the server's size limits. "Our limit is sixteen megabytes," I say, "How big is the file you're trying to send?" "Forty-three megabytes," the user says. I chide him. "It would be rude to send a file that big. Most people don't have big inboxes or fast connections, and it would take them a very long time to download a forty-three meg message."

"But I'm only trying to send it to three people," he says. "And they're all upstairs." He must've forgotten about the enterprise file server that he and everyone else in the organization uses every single day. I remind him. "You know, you could just put it on the file server, then e-mail people to tell them where you put it, and they could all get it for themselves without wasting 120-some megs of space on a bunch of useless individual copies." His response? That of a disappointed child.

"I guess...."