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by edvinbesic 4100 days ago
"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.

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What are the state of the art alternatives? FTPS? Dropbox?
Personally i use dropbox, we transfer or self hosted depending on the content and who I am sending it to.
Web-based email providers that switch to Dropbox-like services when attachments are too large for email?