Jacob Palme writes:
> At 00.45 -0500 99-12-12, Dick St.Peters wrote:
> > I wouldn't bet on that. Sometime in the mid 80's I wrote a pair of
> > scripts to automate breaking a file into roughly 50 KB pieces, sending
> > them by UUCP mail, and reassembling them. GE Medical Systems used it
> > to ship around MRI images.
>
> This (which is supported by ESTMP nowadays) does not solve
> some of the possible problems. The load on the net and on
> the user mailbox storage will be the same. Even worse. If I
> get a large attachment, my e-mailer asks me if I want to
> download it or not. If it is split into many small parts,
> my e-mailer does not give me this option (but perhaps it
> should?) The ESTMP extension for splitting large messages
> is not supported by some email UA vendors.
I only mentioned the example as illustration that the desire to send
large files through email has been around a very long time.
Email was used for the same reason people use it now: because it was
there. The transfers were arranged transfers, usually between sites
with direct-dial UUCP connections and no Internet connection on at
least one end.
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Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY
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