[PLUG] Web file transfer site recommendations

Tom Sharples tsharples at qorvus.com
Fri Jul 24 10:47:05 UTC 2009


Skype is your friend for unlimited-size file transfers:

http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/sendfiles/

We rountinely use it to transfer files > 50MB.

Tom S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Jason Jordan" <johnxj at comcast.net>
To: "PLUG" <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:55 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Web file transfer site recommendations


>I must use PSU's e-mail servers, even for my Comcast account, or I
> won't be able to send e-mail when I am on campus.
>
> Recent "upgrades" to the university e-mail system changed the maximum
> e-mail attachment from 20 MB to 8 MB.
>
> Side question 1: How does this benefit the university? Doesn't the
> entire e-mail and all its attachments merely pass through the
> university's computers? Am I correct in thinking that the 20 ~ 8 MB
> never resides on the university's servers?
>
> This is seriously annoying to me. I cannot get files from my professors
> because they are too big to pass through the university's e-mail
> system.
>
> As a workaround, I am looking for web-based file storage sites. All I
> have found so far are unacceptable.
>
> Does anyone know of such a site (free) that does not require an e-mail
> address so they can spam me forever with requests that I upgrade to a
> for-pay account?
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