[wjk]

http://xkcd.com/1497/ Accurate.

[theandrewbailey]

I argue that http://xkcd.com/949/ is the exact criticism.

[edvinbesic]

"Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear."

Made me chuckle, and then kind of sad since this is still standard practice for a lot of people I know.

[liviu-]

What are the state of the art alternatives? FTPS? Dropbox?

[edvinbesic]

Personally i use dropbox, we transfer or self hosted depending on the content and who I am sending it to.

[ashmud]

Web-based email providers that switch to Dropbox-like services when attachments are too large for email?