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> <qqD524w163w@phoenix.com> <1991May18.192000.6202@xenitec.on.ca>
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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 <qqD524w163w@phoenix.com> 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.

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