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RE: EMAIL != FTP
From: "Robert Blayzor" <rblayzor () thebiz net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:30:59 -0400
While that may be the case for a large number of people, nobody involved in this discussion is that clueless. Hint: they'd probably have an aol.com or msn.com email address, and no clue what NANOG is.
As I stated in a previous posting, ignorance doesn't always get people off the hook as a reason not to do things correctly. It's very easy to explain to someone how to use HTTP vs sending messages by email.
John, here's the steps involved in sending the file to the SMTP server: Click "attach". Select the appropriate directory. Click on the file. Or are you assuming that the folks in this discussion don't have LANs, and are using uuencode and piping through /bin/mail? I think your information is about 15 years out of date.
It's just as easy to make a shortcut to something like: ftp://user:pass () users mywebspace com/ Drag and drop file into browser. Simply type hyperlink into email. ie: http://users.mywebspace.com/user/
And yet, I continue to exchange files with other system administrators of Fortune 500 companies. Guess we're all "uneducated newbies".
Files via email is not completely evil, it has it's uses, however, more people abuse it than just simply use it on occasion to send a small attachment. The point I believe of this argument are the morons that attach multi-megabyte files which waste system resources on servers, waste bandwidth and generally stalls other emails from being delivered. -- Robert Blayzor IP Network Engineer, BOFH BiznessOnline.com, Inc. rblayzor () thebiz net noc () thebiz net http://www.thebiz.net/ FreeBSD, Putting the 'Operating' back into OS! -- http://www.freebsd.org/
Current thread:
- Re: EMAIL != FTP, (continued)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Wayne Bouchard (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Alexei Roudnev (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP David Charlap (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 25)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Robert Blayzor (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Alexei Roudnev (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Greg Maxwell (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP John Fraizer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Shawn McMahon (May 25)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Robert Blayzor (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Scott Francis (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Sabri Berisha (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Marko Karppinen (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP David Howe (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Scott Francis (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP deeann mikula (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Robert Sharp (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Steve Sobol (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Albert Meyer (May 26)