On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Julian Y. Koh wrote:
| At 09:43 -0500 9/18/2000, David Aldridge wrote:
| >SMTP is not an efficient to move binary files. They are converted into
| >ASCII form while enroute and grow several times their original size as a
| >result. Of course, they are translated back to their original form by
| >the client upon receipt.
|
| Whether or not SMTP is a good medium for file exchange (I personally think
| email attachments are evil), the fact is that people are doing it, and
| sadly more and more all the time. Witness Eudora 5.0's new Eudora Sharing
| Protocol (ESP), which relies on sending files as attachments....
Yes of coures, but this does not change the fact that this is the
fundamentally wrong way of doing things. It also does not change the fact
that in order for the mail to be trasnferred, it will have to grow in size
due to ASCII requirements as mentioned.
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