Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:36:40 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote:
>But the emailing standard predates both FTP and HTTP, thus the situation
>existed once.
Excuse me? Which emailing standard? AFAICT by the RFCs email emerged
as its own protocol around the 700s. Meanwhile FTP was being discussed back
in the 400s more than 7 years previous to 780, "Mail Transfer Protocol" and
8 years before "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol." To me, FTP predates
SMTP/POP/IMAP by quite a bit, esp. when most of the eariler mail documents
refer to moving mail via FTP.
>and the situation also existed once wherein joe wasn't an option, thus vi
>was required learning.
Once, but not *now*.
>The DoS attack is going to exist no matter what is done to stop it. It is
>an artifact of TCP/IP networking: the only thing that can truly not be
>denied is what isn't there. Shutting down a part of an existing protocol
>because of it is ludicrous at best. The professionals that keep the
>internet running, for the most part, know this, thus the minor fact that
>large attachments to email exist to this date.
Much to the begrudgement of every postmaster I've ever spoken to.
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