On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Greg Lutz wrote:
[...]
> A nice enhancement to this proposed mechanism would be an automatic launch of the 
>self-extracting .prc on recipient's machine.  In principle, this is easy; just beam a 
>dummy message to it once it has been received and accepted.  But I haven't figured 
>out a way to delay that message for an appropriate amount of time so that recipient's 
>machine is ready for it when it comes!  Seems to me that Application Launcher should 
>have some way of automatically launching an application it has received via beaming.
> 
> Greg Lutz
> NearSpace, Inc.

There have been discussions of doing this before, but just think of the
security implications of that.

-- 
Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
http://www.directedge.com


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