*rolls eyes heavenwards*
I work with people like that. Oh, and just yesterday, someone was asking why everytime they send me pictures over the internet, they bounce back.
I replied "Because hotmail is a free e-mail service and its too small to accept large attachments".
Then I heard "Well, can't you delete some of the stuff you have in there?"
*deep breath* "Yes, but it is still too small to accept a bunch of pics."
"I know! But maybe if you cleared out some of the stuff in there...."
"Hello? Let me speak more slowly...Hotmail....is.....free. It...has....limited...space...unless...you...pay....for...premium....service. That...means...even....if....it's....empty....it....cannot......accept....an....e-mail.....with......five.....pictures...attached."
"Oh."
Yah... I go round and round with people here. Exchange 5.5 (our old system that we're upgrading to Exch 2003) had a *hard* limit of 2GB for total mailbox size. Not a setting... but a limitation of the server software. Couldn't handle a mailbox any bigger.
Now, where I come from, 2GB is a lot of stuff. I keep virtually all my mail and more than a year at a time, and still my mailbox is only a couple hundred megs. I cannot fathom people with sloppy habits like this that can fill up Gigs after just a few months.
But still they whine and moan about mail not working after we tell them and tell them and tell them. your... mailbox... is... full... you... must... archive... your... old... mail... then... your... mail... will... work... again...
'but i need to send this 100MB movie to my client right now'.
"aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh". [bang] [thud]