Re: [Full-Disclosure] Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

[Nick FitzGerald <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu to me:

> > trouble with it.  If your "solution" to this problem is to sugegst that 
> > some new file transfer mechanism should be devised and implementations 
> > widely distributed, then you will simply move the target of choice for 
> > the bad guys from SMTP to "Paul And Richard's Excellent And Easy To Use 
> > New File Transfer Protocol"
> 
> Why invent a *new* mechanism when one exists?
> 
> RFC1440 SIFT/UFT: Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer. R. Troth.
>      July 1993. (Format: TXT=17366 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
> 
> (This was motivated and patterned somewhat like the BITNET 'sendfile'
> facility, and it shows)

Well, I did suggest that it should be widely and commonly deployed (or, 
by implication for a new protocol, seem likely to have a chance to be) 
_and_ easy for ordinary users to use.

SIFT/UFT would appear to neatly avoid -- almost by design -- both of 
those pre-requisites...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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