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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EMAIL != FTP
Craig Partridge wrote: > It is worth remembering that SMTP is, in most respects, simply FTP reworked. > In many ways, HTTP is FTP badly reinvented. > > 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 > true for HTTP though I've not looked. Perhaps there is no inherent difference in throughput, but the files are necessarily larger when sent through e-mail, as they must be base64 encoded. -- Tired of Earthlink? Get JustTheNet! Nationwide Dialup, ISDN, DSL, ATM, Frame Relay, T-1, T-3, and more. EARTHLINK AMNESTY PROGRAM: Buy a year, get two months free More info coming soon to http://JustThe.net, or e-mail me! B!ff: K3wl, w3'v3 r00t3D da [email protected] 0h CrAp, INC0M!Ng $%^NO CARRIER
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