Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
Okay, I guess this is a good thing, but what about when the permission is
given already? And what about when the "holding area" is unavailable,
such as with ISPs that give you enough server space to hold your
configuration files and not much more? If these problems ahve a simplish
solution, I guess I have my answer.
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote:
>
> > --- John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > What's the accepted method of sending a file to a
> > > person that MUST not
> > > get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between
> > > users that have no
> > > access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP
> > > and hostile ISPs, then?
> >
>
> Look at the Linux package sendfile and the preliminary draft of the RFC
> for the saft profocol.
>
> The way it works is this:
>
> I send a file to username@somewhere.dom
>
> That machine collects the file and puts it in a configurable "holding
> area". Then the recipient is notified that a file is waiting for them and
> they can choose to accept or reject the file. If it is rejected, it is
> deleted. If accepted, it is placed in the user's directory.
>
>
> George Bonser
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