Re: SMTP and FTP...

[Steve Goldstein--Ph 202-357-9717 <sgoldste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, do we have the seeds of user-initiated file transfer that the BITNET
world praises and the Internet world never gets around to implementing?

--SG

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     >
     >John (Klensin),
     >
     >"Where does SMTP-extended stop and X.400 start?"
     >
     >SMTP + RFC 1154 (or other multi-part multi-structured nestable encoding)
     >stops at the SMTP-X.400 gateway and X.400 begins there.  And it ought
     >to be more or less reversible.
     >
     >"Where does SMTP-extended stop and file transfer begin?"
     >
     >Afraid it's really the other way around.  By adding file-system-object
     >encoded message parts (to 822 not SMTP), we have wiped out quite a bit
     >of FTP traffic here at Prime.  You don't have to know the passwords,
     >just mail it.  If the network glitches, it will get through eventually.
     >And without your waiting for it to complete.
     >
     >Cheers,
     >David