Okay, I guess this is a good thing, but what about when the permission is given already? And what about when the "holding area" is unavailable, such as with ISPs that give you enough server space to hold your configuration files and not much more? If these problems ahve a simplish solution, I guess I have my answer.
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: > > > --- John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What's the accepted method of sending a file to a > > > person that MUST not > > > get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between > > > users that have no > > > access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP > > > and hostile ISPs, then? > > > > Look at the Linux package sendfile and the preliminary draft of the RFC > for the saft profocol. > > The way it works is this: > > I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That machine collects the file and puts it in a configurable "holding > area". Then the recipient is notified that a file is waiting for them and > they can choose to accept or reject the file. If it is rejected, it is > deleted. If accepted, it is placed in the user's directory. > > > George Bonser > > Support The THING -- http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!
