Re: Setting the stage

Michael Richardson wrote:

> I was mostly disturbed by the things that email is being used for.
> 
> We started, years ago, with FTP-by-mail as a weird aberation. UUCP connected 
> sites rapidly banned this. Ironically, MIME institutionalized it.
> 
> A major lack that we have on the Internet is that there is no trivial
> and easy way for two individuals to share files. This isn't mail's fault,
> but mail has been used to fill to gap, and the result is the disaster that
> we are in.

Yes. And its not just the spam problem. Its not a very good tool
for collaboration. Perhaps we need a new application that fills the
gap between e-mail/person-to-person messaging and web/global publishing.
Then we can design the remaining messaging parts as a simpler, cleaner
tool.

--Jari