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Article #19Re: fall of Bitnet
From: Anthony J Stieber
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 05:03
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 05:03
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In article <FUTURE-L%90022613392247@UGA.BITNET> BITNET Futures List <FUTURE-L@BI >>I know of no service provided by either Bitnet or UUCP that cannot be >>easily duplicated (and for the most part already is duplicated) on >>the Internet. > >Not true. The Internet does not have interactive messaging capability. >It does not have the ability to send files asynchoronously without >passwords, and with the transmission being initiated on the sending >side. In other words, it lacks "mail" like service for file transfer. >Hence, people sometimes tend to encode files inside of mail, which is >not a very satisfactory replacement for true file transfer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!BITNIC!FUTURE-L Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 00:03:11 EST Reply-To: Anthony J Stieber <astieber@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Sender: BITNET Futures List <FUTURE-L@BITNIC.bitnet> Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was news@UWM.EDU From: Anthony J Stieber <astieber@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Re: fall of Bitnet Comments: To: bit-listserv-future-l@cs.psu.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution <FUTURE-L@UTORGPU.uucp> Message-ID: <90Feb28.004623est.57386@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: list.future-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu