On 2 Aug 2005, at 13:15, John P. Looney wrote:
> Web & FTP servers just aren't the way to go. Maybe something like
> .Mac,
> where you get disk space on the web that's just like a local drive, and
> your mail client can somehow grant once-off download URLs to people you
> mail. It's a tricky problem to solve easily & securly, which is why
> it's
> been this way for 15 years or so.
And SMTP certainly isn't solving it securely. But let's face it - the
average person using email as a file transfer protocol wouldn't know
security from a computer P.O.V. if it bit them in the arse. Someone
here the other day mentioned www.yousendit.com - it certainly seems
like a useful service, if you can live with the security issues.
Niall
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