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Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 90 00:03:11 EST
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From:	Anthony J Stieber <astieber@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Subject:      Re: fall of Bitnet
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In article <FUTURE-L%90022613392247@UGA.BITNET> BITNET Futures List <FUTURE-L@BI
>>I know of no service provided by either Bitnet or UUCP that cannot be
>>easily duplicated (and for the most part already is duplicated) on
>>the Internet.
>
>Not true.  The Internet does not have interactive messaging capability.
>It does not have the ability to send files asynchoronously without
>passwords, and with the transmission being initiated on the sending
>side.  In other words, it lacks "mail" like service for file transfer.
>Hence, people sometimes tend to encode files inside of mail, which is
>not a very satisfactory replacement for true file transfer.