Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lsuc!iguana!merce From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: <1991May19.053334.10755@iguana.uucp> Keywords: BITFTP, MBAS, Store-and-Forward Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society References: <1991May17.041635.4503@iguana.uucp> <1991May18.192000.6202@xenitec.on.ca> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 19 May 91 05:33:34 GMT In article <1991May18.192000.6202@xenitec.on.ca> gws@xenitec.on.ca (Geoff Scully) writes: >In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: >>merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes: >>> email is for messaging, not file transfers. >> >> Email is for what the users email. When someone asks me, in mail, for >>the frequencies for cable channels, am I supposed to type it in or am I >>allowed to send him the FILE I have already typed in? Is he now >>prohibited from saving this information in a FILE, because "email is for >>messaging, not file transfers."? Email is an analog to paper mail, and >>sometimes people mail books. >> > >There is a big difference between a list of cable freqs and ~60 MEG of >sources. Oh, and BTW, when you send a book to somebody, do you send it to >somebody 1/3 of the way and then ask them to pay the price in time and >stamps to have it continue its journey? Not likely. You send it directly >to the destination, paying the postage yourself. Again, email is not and >was not ever intended as a way to send huge files over a store and forward >network. i would like to also comment that books, when shipped via mail, are tariffed differently then letters, and are handled using totally different equipment. -- [ Jim Mercer work: jim@lsuc.on.ca home: merce@iguana.uucp +1 519 570-3467 ] [ "Anarchists Unite!" - seen spray painted on a wall ]