Re: fall of Bitnet

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1 total messages Started by Anthony J Stieber Wed, 28 Feb 1990 05:03

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Author: Anthony J Stieber
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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