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Craig Partridge wrote: > Part of this discussion is just plain bizarre. > > It is worth remembering that SMTP is, in most respects, simply FTP reworked. > In many ways, HTTP is FTP badly reinvented. I disagree - HTTP is more firewall/NAT friendly, and has no active/passive mode. > But for a little extra SMTP handshaking at the start, there is no efficiency > difference in transfer rate between SMTP and FTP. Probably the same is No, there is overhead in encoding of binary data for transmission by SMTP. > true for HTTP though I've not looked. Jan
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