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Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:48:20 -0400

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:56:15 +1200, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>  said:

trouble with it.  If your "solution" to this problem is to sugegst that 
some new file transfer mechanism should be devised and implementations 
widely distributed, then you will simply move the target of choice for 
the bad guys from SMTP to "Paul And Richard's Excellent And Easy To Use 
New File Transfer Protocol"

Why invent a *new* mechanism when one exists?

RFC1440 SIFT/UFT: Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer. R. Troth.
     July 1993. (Format: TXT=17366 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

(This was motivated and patterned somewhat like the BITNET 'sendfile'
facility, and it shows)

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