The E-mail Protocol is for Text
Cross-posted from Tux Machines
E-mail is not a file-sharing protocol. It is for textual communications (PDFs typically miss the point entirely). Sometimes small-sized attachments, typically well less than a megabyte in total. There are many practical reasons - totally sensible reasons - for all this (some sites can give the benefits' list, regarding both size and non-HTML). But some law firms simply don't know how to use E-mail. They engage in lawfare (in "lawfirm" clothing). As a result, our E-mail system was running low on space and even out of space (temporarily at least). It's like the physical DoS, except digital. They transmit to us payloads of material which are an impediment not only to us but also to regulators and courts, as it's basically flooding one side with heaps of mindless stuff that serves to distract from abuse (leading to an underestimation of the bad behaviour, which gets "diluted" by noise). Calling it "DoS" (Denial of Service) might seem like a stretch, but it is a fair description. More so if it is intentional. Proving that it is intentional is hard (short of a dumb admission).
They exercise bad netiquette - a term they may have to look up as they are all technically illiterate, for reasons we'll show in the future. They're clogging up the inboxes - the very same inboxes on which we rely for communications to/from the Court. They are technically inept, as evidenced by thousands of pages and bloat like videos embedded in every message. They share with Microsoft almost a gigabyte of privileged material about cases - outsourcing all the E-mails and all the files to Microsoft, also sharing passwords with Microsoft. In a case that's closely connected to Microsoft. Unbelievable.
Is this a bad joke? No, it is Brett Wilson LLP. █