[37873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EMAIL != FTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. David Leonard)
Fri May 25 07:57:32 2001
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 07:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
To: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
Cc: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
"'Steve Sobol'" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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Sorry, can't resist replying here. In my limited (7 years)
experience, 99% of all large file transfers via e-mail consist of dancing
babies, horny snowmen, clumsy reindeer/monkeys/people movie clips. Oh,
did I mention the plethora of cutesy jack-o-lanterns around October
31st? I also find it remarkable that no one seems to protect these
'sensitive' documents with PGP or another encryption method since we all
know that e-mail is in plain text. What were you saying about ftp being
insecure?
David Leonard
ShaysNet
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Mitch Halmu wrote:
>
> So what's a regular user to do? Email it! Hence the legitimate use of
> email for transmission of large files. Most ISPs know that if they start
> limiting this privilege, users will migrate to someone that allows it.
>
