On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:44:39 MST, Vernon Schryver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Didn't I see mention of something called an "external body"? That notion > avoids the scaling problems of requiring that all spool directories and > all destination mail directories be large enough when many people decide > to forward a 28 MByte Good Times virus. message/external-body dates all the way back to 1992, in RFC 1341 (the MIME Dark Ages). At the time, it seemed like a very good way to address the problem in classic computer science style - instead of passing the data structure, pass a pointer to it. Unfortunately, for most of the Internet users of today, the availability of long-term stable externally-reachable storage is low enough that you usually end up dereferencing a null pointer..... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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