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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