[PLUG] Web file transfer site recommendations

Tony Rick tonyr42 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 15:12:05 UTC 2009


I've been using Mediafire (mediafire.com).  They have a free account with
minimal but adequate features.  They do require an email address, but I have
never gotten emails soliciting an upgrade, or anything else for that
matter.  I did uncheck the box in my account profile that says "yeah send me
all the spam you want to" or something like that.  The only complaint is
that the transfers are relatively slow, not an issue for me at the moment.

tony

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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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