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Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:56:16 +1200
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 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.., (continued)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Richard M. Smith (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Jeroen Massar (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Brent J. Nordquist (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. martin f krafft (Aug 20)
- Re: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Nick FitzGerald (Aug 21)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Nick FitzGerald (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Paul Schmehl (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 21)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Nick FitzGerald (Aug 21)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Dan Stromberg (Aug 21)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Bryan Allen (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)