[37921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stealth Blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri May 25 18:15:38 2001
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:04:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 25 May 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> I'd completely agree with you for, say, a mailing list; but we're talking
> about person A wants the file, person B has the file. Why should either
> one of them jump through hoops? More importantly, why do you give a shit
> how they choose to transfer files to each other?
Because the customer is the one who ends up calling tech support because
their email client exploded while trying to download a 400mb attachment.
SMTP does not mean "bulk binary file transfer protocol".
-Dan
