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From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Jun 2010 14:30 I have to send somebody 300MB worth of slides. They have a pissy Blueyonder account so the largest attachment they can receive is about 25MB. Yousendit want to charge nine bucks a month for the ability to send a message that size. So I bought a cheap Peckham Council 2GB thumb drive, wrapped it in a letter and sent it. And it arrived slit open and empty. Bastards. As she lives in London, cheapest and safest is to use my bus pass and deliver it by sneakernet. Anybody got a better idea? -- Peter
From: Mark on 22 Jun 2010 14:48 On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:30:56 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote (in article <1jki5t7.15k06l54wrhgN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>): > I have to send somebody 300MB worth of slides. They have a pissy > Blueyonder account so the largest attachment they can receive is about > 25MB. Yousendit want to charge nine bucks a month for the ability to > send a message that size. So I bought a cheap Peckham Council 2GB thumb > drive, wrapped it in a letter and sent it. And it arrived slit open and > empty. Bastards. > > As she lives in London, cheapest and safest is to use my bus pass and > deliver it by sneakernet. Anybody got a better idea? > Something like <http://isendr.com/> ? Mark
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Jun 2010 14:55 Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Something like <http://isendr.com/> Thank you. I'll try it now. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 22 Jun 2010 15:00 On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:30:56 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >I have to send somebody 300MB worth of slides. They have a pissy >Blueyonder account so the largest attachment they can receive is about >25MB. Yousendit want to charge nine bucks a month for the ability to >send a message that size. So I bought a cheap Peckham Council 2GB thumb >drive, That's your problem - it was surely an undercover reporter trying to scab another six million names and addresses lost by a civil servant. >wrapped it in a letter and sent it. And it arrived slit open and >empty. Bastards. > >As she lives in London, cheapest and safest is to use my bus pass and >deliver it by sneakernet. Anybody got a better idea? I use www.transferbigfiles.com occasionally. Cheers - Jaimie -- They say the mind is the second thing to go. I can't remember the first.
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Jun 2010 15:39
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > I use www.transferbigfiles.com occasionally. But for 300MB, in London, I reckon it's still down to sneakernet. But thanks anyway. If I sent that kind of file regularly, I'd open a subscription- for instance to Yousendid. But it's once a year at most... Of course when the recipient has an account like mine at Demon, there's no limit and no problem. Anyway, I shall try Dropsend and see what happens. Seems to work- I'll see. -- Peter |