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In article <1991May16.145758.6817@uu.psi.com> schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall) writes:
> Mailing files is one of those things that doesn't work very reliably,

Why does remote ftp have to have anything to do with mail?

An interface like this would be great for those of us with no SLIP
capability:

"uux uupsi!rftp sprite.berkeley.edu:~ftp/mx.tar.Z (ficc!~/from-uupsi)"

I realise this might hurt your flat rate pricing, so you could restrict
rftp to people with DCS or LAN-DCS access, or impose a surcharge, or
something. UUNET would be able to do this without pain. And it would
strongly discourage people from using mail for file transfer.

> To transfer files we use a tried and true mechanism:  FTP.

Which requires interactive access to the Internet. When one is using an
intermittent transport mechanism (dial-ups and modems) a store-and-forward
technique is much more useful. With a smart enough UUCP on your end, you
could even avoid staging the file at all in most cases.
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