1 Aug
2005
1 Aug
'05
4:57 p.m.
WIBNI if the clients' message composition windows displayed the size of the prospective outgoing message as a color-coded BIG number... <50K green <200K yellow <500K orange
1MB red ...or some such..
Idiot clueless users occasionally send inadvertantly huge messages...the problem is that there is currently no feedback loop (like this suggestion)....nobody would mail a 100 pound hardcopy 'quick' USPS note to Aunt Mildred, but they're often doing the equivalent in email.
If you bump into any client designers, give them the suggestion
==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035