Subject: What can be sent via e-mail

From: Lyndon Thickens <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:29:21 -0600

I was wondering if anyone can give me a general idea of what can be
sent via e-mail.  
   
    If I understand correctly uuencoding is annoying past 500 bytes.

    How does FTP relate to pine ? (not that I even know what FTP is yet)

    Is there some way for me to upload a file to my current directory from
my PC or is that only possible on the machine running pine ?

    Is there such a thing as FTP e-mail (I had better stop here before
I look "really stupid")

    General or specific responses to any or all of these topics would be
very much appreciated.  Post 'em or e-mail me please.

                Lyndon Thickens (soon-to-be artist)

                     Eenie Meenie Jelly Beanie,
                   the spirits are about to speak 
                           --Bullwinkle.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 01:38:21 +0100 (CET)

>    If I understand correctly uuencoding is annoying past 500 bytes.

That's nothing to do with that... Anything above 64k is undesirable (size of
Intel's segments). Anything bigger than 1MB will not be accepted anywhere,
especially not at AOL (does anyone care?).

  >    How does FTP relate to pine ? (not that I even know what FTP is yet)

Not at all. FTP is a Protocol to Transport Files. It's usually done via so
called FTP-servers for which you need an extra account.

  >my PC or is that only possible on the machine running pine ?

Upload where? To an ftp-server? Yes, if you have an ftp-account or the
permission to anonymously upload to an ftp-server. Other people can download
from there. If you mean: can I send emails containing binary files, the
answer is again yes. Just attach a file to your email. It's a _very_ good
idea to compress it first, using e.g. PKzip, ARJ, Compress, Gzip...
It's a *very* bad idea to post larger attachments to mailing lists and
newsgroups, though.

  >    Is there such a thing as FTP e-mail (I had better stop here before

[standard disclaimer: there are not stupid questions, just AOL-users...]

ftp-email is a service provided by some servers. You send them an email
requesting a file and get many nice emails in return.

Cheers,
Robin

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