[Delk]

To be fair, emailing binaries (apart from known types such as images, PDFs, etc.) is a rare enough use case for legitimate purposes and an easy enough way of spamming malware to clueless random people that it's probably a reasonable default for gmail.

Having an option to allow them might be okay though. (I barely use gmail so I don't know if it has one or not.)

[sjg007]

Ah you must be young...

[totetsu]

for not using gmail? The hooked me in school

[Nasrudith]

For not sending binaries by email - there is no shame to being young in this case as it means never developing the bad habits.

Before Dropbox and similiar it was far more a norm and various file sharing systems like SharePoint may wind up not actually used. Non-computer technical people often do so in companies all the time and practically use it as an ersatz version control system to the cringe of IT.

[totetsu]

This WebRTC p2p file transfer has been a revelation for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675

[Akronymus]

We "thankfully" have shared folders we can use to drop stuff to specific users.

But most of our software lives on a RDP server anyways.

[Alekhine]

He means there used to be a time when people would mail binaries to each other more often, before they got too big and DRM'ed for that.

[bawolff]

There was also a time when alt.binaries was a thing (technically not email, but usenet is pretty similar)