[37897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Possible solution? (e-mail parcel vs. FTP)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Fri May 25 12:31:27 2001
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:49:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Here are my "givens":
* Average users cannot, and will not, tolerate FTP
* HTTP and FTP are more efficient than SMTP
* New protocols (IM2000) might be nice, but we need interoperability
* Attachments are usually MIME, with a few uuencoded ones now and then.
Methinks that it's proxy time. Why not hack the popular MTAs so that they
take attachments, spool them in a Web-accessible directory, then modify
the message.
Just like e-cards...
ATTACHMENTS:
1. http://some.domain.tld/path/to/sample/file.jpg
2. http://another.place.tld/second-attachment.doc
Go to the link, receive a warning that they must save the file after
download, that it will be deleted after successful download. Or delete it
after a few days. Or maybe users could manage their Web spool, deleting
messages as they please.
There are some details to work out, but is the "FTP upload" not a task
that we could automatically perform for users?
Eddy
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