In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt
.edu typed:
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>>a) Do you have an incoming anonymous FTP drop *of your own*?
>>b) Are you willing to set up incoming FTP for one file?
>>c) What if you're one of the millions of people who use an ISP that
>>doesn't provide FTP drops?
plenty of ISPs offer free web space (e.g. 5M is typical) - for a file
of size nMbytes , all you
need is to get n/5 internet accounts , run split on the file - hey you
could use slightly more (e..g n) and
even run a fancy layered fec dithering crypto algorithm
and have a file that noone could _remove_ without removing more than
4n sites - its called an "eternity" service and is a possible very
valuble service indeed (reliable and also hard for centralized
authorities to attack)
>>
>>OK, that doesn't seem to be viable. Let me store it and you pick it up:
>>d) I happen to be lucky enough to have my own workstation. However,
>>you can't FTP to it because I have FTP disabled. If I don't have an FTP
>>drop, you can't pick it up.
>>e) If I didn't have a Web page area big enough to hold the file,
>>how would I send it to you? Remember that many freebie sites put a 5M or 10M
>>quota on the users...
>>
>>Of course, the right answer is something like this:
>>
>>1440 SIFT/UFT: Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer. R. Troth.
>> July 1993. (Format: TXT=17366 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
>>
>>However, there's few enough sites running it that it's not really an
>>alternative. Heck, I *know* Rick Troth, and I'm not even running one,
>>mostly due to a lack of anybody else for it to talk to.
>>
>>Perhaps it's time to dust that RFC off and see what can be done with it...
>>
>>
>>--
>> Valdis Kletnieks
>> Operating Systems Analyst
>> Virginia Tech
>>
>>
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cheers
jon
