On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:41:20AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:22:47 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> This is the proper thing to do since it then lets the other end decide > >> not only *IF* they want the file, but *when* then want the file. > > >If the sending user is on a dialup connection, how on earth can this work? > >Think about it. > > Your homework assignment, should you choose to accept it, Hamish, is
Steve, your credibility would improve incredibly if you weren't so damn patronising. > this. To figure out ways for people on dial-up connections to allow people > to download files from an embedded URL. Your tools are the following: > > A local FTP client so the person can upload the file to one of the following > An ISP/company/orignization run HTTP server. > An ISP/company/originzation run FTP server. This is way ugly. > as the standards and conventions surrounding them. One of which is the > embedded HTTP defiled URL inside an email message sent and received by a > combonation of SMTP and POP3/IMAP4rev2 to direct them to a proper FTP > location. It would be better, IMHO, for the mail client at the receipient's end to be able to retrieve the message without any attachments, then download them from the server if needed. I don't like the idea of pointers to files, except where such files are ALREADY published. > For internal corporate use, the sharing of files was, again, built into > the systems of yesteryear. That would be what *GROUPS* are for on the > system we all know and love, Unix. It is so a GROUP of people would have > access to read and or change files so that said GROUP of people could > cooperate on a project. And the relevance of this paragraph is? > So, uh, Hamish, without being to provocotive for you... How, EXACTLY, > would you take it to some upstart developer *demanding* changes in the way > Debian does things even though there are clear procedures, conventions and > techology to allow him to do exactly what he wants if he only took the time > to learn it? I have absolutely no idea what this has to do with the issue of large email messages. Perhaps you could debate this with someone who does. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.