OT: Netiquette and Programatically Emailling Attachments

I've googled on how to email pdfs and found some good information on what is (I think) late binding of the Outlook model to an A2003 application I've developed to email reports. The concept is that my app creates numerous reports on accounts and, for each account, a pdf is generated. Then, based on the email for the financial manager listed, the app emails them all the pdfs for which they are listed as a financial manager.

Most managers will receive one, or at most, two reports, ie, two attachments in an email. Some, such as project managers for large capital projects, can potentially receive many.

It is assumed the financial managers will be opening their email at work, on our high speed system (as opposed to my sometime practice of using dial-up at home). The file sizes are usually 4-10 kb in size but can be up to 100k or more, occasionally.

Now, as seems to be the case with university administrators, nobody here knows what netiquette is, even if it came out and banged two metal garbage can lids on either side of their head... nonetheless...

Can anyone offer a suggestion as how to best handle this? Sending individual emails for 40 odd reports that one manager might get seems pretty awful, but so too does a single email with 40 odd attachments! Or is the latter option as horrible as it seems? Limit it to 5 (or some number) attachments per email?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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