What's your largest attachment?
This story over at The FuzzyBlog! reminds of a story from a couple of years ago. A friend of mine, who lived and worked in San Francisco at the time, was writing an e-mail engine. He called it "the spam engine" but it was probably just used to send out mass e-mails to customers. Anyway, he decided to test it on me, so I received something like 1000 e-mails from him in one day. You can imagine my annoyance - and I thought to myself "that bastard - I'll get him!" So I zipped up a bunch of large files on my hard drive - including a JDK (40MB) and some other stuff. The final size of the zip was ~79MB. I attached and hit send. You can imagine how tickled I was when he called me to say, "What the hell did you send me? My Outlook froze up and it crashed my computer!" Needless to say, he quit testing his spam engine out on me ;-)