On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:22:43PM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said "James J. Lippard" on 07 Nov 1999 17:12:54 MST:
>
> > Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail,
> > faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will
> > not be the answer--building the appropriate user interfaces and
> > designing the appropriate transport protocols will be.
> Yes, and tha appropriate protocol is already in place, it's called FTP.
> Andy
Let's stop this thread now. I think it's a bit on the nose to tell users
that they should think before they send. As far as I'm concerned, FTP is
dead and the world is moving to nothing but HTTP and SMTP :-)
Our users send 100Mb+ messages internally over our private WAN - why
shouldn't they send that way to the Internet? [yes, yes, I know - others
have quota limits/etc. But disk is cheap - quotas never work. Users just
save everything over their quota into some other area - where it probably
isn't backed up/etc].
Anyway, all this is business decisions individual sites make. Nothing of use
for us to talk about here....
--
Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
