North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EMAIL != FTP
Sorry, can't resist replying here. In my limited (7 years) experience, 99% of all large file transfers via e-mail consist of dancing babies, horny snowmen, clumsy reindeer/monkeys/people movie clips. Oh, did I mention the plethora of cutesy jack-o-lanterns around October 31st? I also find it remarkable that no one seems to protect these 'sensitive' documents with PGP or another encryption method since we all know that e-mail is in plain text. What were you saying about ftp being insecure? David Leonard ShaysNet On Fri, 25 May 2001, Mitch Halmu wrote: > > So what's a regular user to do? Email it! Hence the legitimate use of > email for transmission of large files. Most ISPs know that if they start > limiting this privilege, users will migrate to someone that allows it. >
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