[38067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible solution? (e-mail parcel vs. FTP)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sabri Berisha)
Mon May 28 05:40:41 2001
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:39:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri@bit.nl>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 25 May 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote:
Hi,
> 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.
I've given some thinking to this subject, however I thought of the
following objections:
- users do no longer have it under control (ie don't have the choice to
mail/put on web) anymore;
- confidential information *could* be stored unwantingly lang online
on the other side, it might be a good solution to give the cluefull users
a choice: ie with an extra header:
X-No-Attachment-Stealing: yes
or something like that.
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