LARGE E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS suck up bandwidth and clog both your out¬box and the recipient's in box. What's more, since many mail s;rvers balk at sending and/or receiving large files, your big batch of photos, killer Power¬Point presentations, or other items may be stopped in their outbox tracks.

Because of those limitations, I'm partial to services like YouSendlt which let you send big files without any hassles. Just head to the site, enter the names and e-mail addresses of your recipients, and then choose the file to send. After it uploads, the recipients get an e-mail containing a link that downloads the file.



Of course, that entails a lot more steps than just attaching a file to an e-mail-which is why I'm now using You Send It's Outlook plug-in. This freebie allows me to use the service without going to the Web site or even leaving Outlook: I can 'Attach by You Send It' any file I would normally attach to an e-mail, or have the plug-in automatically kick in for files larger than a designated size (say, 5MB).

The service also provides a new plug-in for the Microsoft Office suite that works in much the same fashion as its Outlook plug-in but operates within the confines of Word, Excel, and Power Point. Neat stuff. (Drop.io comes to mind.) I've always had good luck with YouSendlt, however, and the convenient plug-ins are icing on the cake. You have to register to use them, but in return you receive a free YouSendlt Lite account that allows you to send files as large as 100MB. YouSendlt isn't the only file-sending game