Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:42:04 PST, Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  said:
> SMTP is not a file transport protocol, and it will always be less 
> efficient at transporting files than a protocol that is designed for 
> that purpose.  Not to say that some new protocol couldn't be designed 
> that had the desirable addressing features of email, and the efficiency 
> of FTP.  But that would be a new protocol...

No, it would be an old protocol.  See RFC1440, from July 1993.

Is there sufficient interest to create a working group to overhaul RFC1440
into something more usable in today's Internet?
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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