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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..



On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:56:15 +1200, Nick FitzGerald <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk>  said:

> trouble with it.  If your "solution" to this problem is to sugegst that 
> some new file transfer mechanism should be devised and implementations 
> widely distributed, then you will simply move the target of choice for 
> the bad guys from SMTP to "Paul And Richard's Excellent And Easy To Use 
> New File Transfer Protocol"

Why invent a *new* mechanism when one exists?

RFC1440 SIFT/UFT: Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer. R. Troth.
     July 1993. (Format: TXT=17366 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)

(This was motivated and patterned somewhat like the BITNET 'sendfile'
facility, and it shows)

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