On Wed, 20 Oct 1993 08:51:09 CDT Marty Hoag said:
> In my humble opinion EVERY list should have Files= No coded unless
>there is a really good reason to do otherwise (in other words, unless
>it is used for local or BITNET file distribution).
>
> Very few lists are pure BITNET any more and trying to send files to
>them just doesn't make sense any longer.
Actually......there is a RFC to make the sendfile (in VM/CMS terms)
functions available over the internet (Rick Troth at Rice is one of
the big proponents of it). The discussion list that deals with
unsolisited file transferrs is SIFT-L@Ricemvm1 (.rice.edu).
>In fact, I think it would be best to have the default Files= No .
I totally agree.
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