penmachine.comments (all fields optional!)
I don't quite agree with posting sensitive data to a website. email is still the safest way of sending sensitive data. I suggest you consider the infimail outlook add-in as it sends files in manageable packets using email and thus avoids clogging networks.
Probably the safest way of sending sensitive data is encrypting it, putting on a CD, and then walking it to wherever it needs to go. :)
If you've got the bandwidth available (and if you're sending by email, you probably do), you can simply encrypt your file in some sort of archive (zip, dmg, tgz, whatever) and make it available by FTP or HTTP. Or you could segment your encrypted archive and send it in a series of emails too.
According to your website, "Both the sender and the recipient must be using Microsoft Outlook and have the Infimail plug-in installed." So I'm supposed to negate the very key of Internet email's usefulness, in that it doesn't depend on particular computer platforms or applications at either end, in order to use a program I and my recipient are both supposed to pay for, to accomplish something I could otherwise do with a variety of free tools that don't depend on everyone running Windows and Outlook?
You also suggest "sending files to mailing lists; inter-company collaboration by email; PDF press releases, newsletters etc." as things you could do. That assumes that everyone on your mailing list, at other companies, on your press release list, in your newsletter list, etc. has the plugin installed, runs Windows, and uses Outlook. It also presumes that you _want_ to send large files to these people over email, and that they _want_ to receive them. What if they're on dialup? What if they're not interested? Your program doesn't seem to give them any option but to receive the large attachments anyway, just in chunks instead of all at once. A link to website lets them get files only if they want them.
You also write that it "is a more secure document exchange because unlike other large file sharing solutions it does not involve sending the files to a third party server or any other destination except straight to your inbox."
Well, BitTorrent and Kazaa don't use dedicated servers, and there are all those email servers and relays and routers every email goes through. Just the same as other Internet traffic. If you're concerned about file security, use an HTTPS connection for your server, encrypt your files, and use passwords. All are more secure than email. (Or you can just encrypt the files you email.)
Anyway, sorry to pound on your product. I think the idea is a good one, but saying that I (and especially my recipients) have to run the least secure email program ever made (Outlook), _and_ all have your plugin?
Uh, no thanks.
P.S. I suggest you re-read my post—all the other reasons I cited for not sending large files and Word documents via email still apply, even if people were using your product.
Commenting by HaloScan
