[plug] uploading large files

[Peter Taekema]

Do you, or have you used Skype (or similar communications software)?

You could kill two birds with one stone.  It's a cheap and easy way to
stay in touch with people from around the world and it has a fairly
useful file transfer option - desktop to desktop.  

http://skype.com/intl/en/

For linux  & windows users, another option is pidgin: This will allow
interaction with a number of different comms programs: Aim, ICQ, msn,
yahoo, etc....   and pidgin also has a file transfer option.

http://www.pidgin.im/ 

I have used skype to transfer large files (100+ MB) and it works fairly
well.

The good part about it is the person at the other end doesn't need to be
a tech head...   Many computer users have experience using msn skype,
yahoo messenger or similar..

PT.


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:10 +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> Got a client that wants to send me a large file (80MB) from the US and her
> ISP has restriction on file sizes that can be e-mailed as attachments.  I
> was thinking along the line of one of the free upload file sharing sites,
> but do not want to trust the  file to that.  I also could have her send it
> to one of my servers via ftp, but have not set that up due to security
> reasons.  I would imagine it would be better to do the former and then
> turn the service off.
> Are there any other choices?  She is sending a file from a Mac Notebook.
> 
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