The guideline encourages the campus to converge on a single protocol for attached files. During that process, the following information can facilitate exchanging attached files. Sending to lists of users. The sender should have reason to believe that all recipients can accept the encoding used for the attached file. List servers are particularly prone to performance problems with large attached files because the size processed is the attached file size multiplied by the number of recipients.
Some list servers enforce size limitations.
An attached file that is only partially received is normally not usable at all. Plain text vs. attached files. It's not too big. Many email systems will let you have multiple Text items. In such systems, each item will be handled as if it had been entered into the email message body rather than being encoded as an attached file.