Some interesting musings on the growing popularity of sending e-mail attachments.

I don't notice this is increasing. I've been getting overly large attachments since I was a wee little information consumer. Certainly less experienced users generally think nothing of pushing multi-megabyte files through struggling mail servers, and even mail admins who should know better have sent me 4 or 5 meg files (much to my surprise). I can see where that could grow to be a problem/pain for the network techs, but I don't believe that the users will ever see a problem/need to change.

Schrage's speculation that something to deal with and push attachments around may be the next IM/Gaming platform offers some interesting avenues of speculation, but I'm not sure it's going to happen. Most of the people sending these files have no concept of the need to worry about attachment size. I mean, even if they did have some understanding, most of the time they don't even know how big the files are, and most clients I've worked with don't provide a lot of help/feedback in that department.