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RE: EMAIL != FTP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat May 26 07:02:51 2001

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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Scott Francis' <scott@virtualis.com>,
	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
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 00:34:11 -0700
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> From: Scott Francis [mailto:scott@virtualis.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 4:03 PM

> Oh give me a break - is there ANY modern browser that will 
> not prompt you to
> save the file if it does not recognize it as a displayable 
> format? Your
> reasoning is going downhill ...

Have you ever setup an Apache web server (or any other)? Create a random
binary file and call it something.xyz (or any other extention not defined in
your mime-type) and see if ANY browser will load it as something other than
garbage.


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