>                                                                         I
> must say I  am amazed at the  amount of energy the  Internet community is
> spending   finding   clumsy  ways   to   avoid   having  to   develop   a
> sender-initiated, binary file transfer  protocol that doesn't require you
> logon password. People are apparently happy to get software in bunches of
> 50 mail files  which have to be counted, reassembled,  de-encoded, and so
> on. The worst is that they  think of this technique as something superior
> to our stone-age protocols, something we should strive for. Ah well.
>
>   Eric
 
The MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) document that is
nearing Proposed Standard status in the IETF includes provisions for
including arbitrary text and binary files as part of mail messages.
No password is required.