Paul de Weerd wrote: > ... ((SMTP != NFS) && (HTTP == NFS)) ? This: ( SMTP != ( NFS || AFS || SMB || DAVFS ) )
> E-mail may not be an acceptable surrogate for a networked filesystem, > but you sure can easily transfer files with it. It's a kludge that has started to become permanent as people start to mistake it for a solution, either for lack of knowledge, lack of thought, lack of planning, lack of infrastructure, etc. Plaintext attachments are less of a disadvantage, binaries are just stupid. > ...Now it's wrong to do so because Lars tells us ? No. It's always been wrong. Why it's become common to do so would be an interesting study. But the bottom line is that, among other problems, it wastes space, bandwidth and makes version tracking difficult. Regards, -Lars
