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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watserv1!rwwatt
- From: Roger Watt <rwwatt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Subject: Re: _possible_ death of BITNET
- Message-ID: <C17t96.CFt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: rwwatt@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Roger Watt)
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Waterloo
- References: <NODMGT-L%93012013571987@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> <1993Jan21.095149.253@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:43:52 GMT
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- > The NJE network provides two facilities that the Internet traditionally
- > has not: [...]
- > Unsolicited file transfer is more difficult, but not impossible, and I'd
- > be surprised to find that nobody was working on it. (I'll probably tackle
- > it eventually if nobody else does.)
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- I've never been a devotee of communication via NMR, but I think the
- unsolicitied file transfer is already a "done deal". MIME now gives me the
- ability to include an arbitrary file as an "attachment" in the body of an
- RFC822 mail object and send it to you in an RFC821 wrapper, and (if your
- mail-reading tool supports MIME too) gives you the ability to save the
- received "attachment" into a file of your choice. If that isn't
- "unsolicited file transfer", it is pretty darned close.
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