[GLLUG] Broadband/cable provider [OT]

[Adrian McMenamin]

On 6 March 2013 13:04, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 12:55:11 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton
> <james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Another thing I liked, was an old demon.net feature.
> > You sent them an email, they downloaded the file for you, you then
> > downloaded it locally from demon.
> > I think they called the service "ftp via email".
> > I have no idea if they still do it or not.
>
> I too remember this feature, but it had more point in a dial-up
> environment.  If you were trying to download something from a distant, slow
> site you tied up one of their dial-up modems for an extended period.  If
> instead they (Demon) fetched it to a local disk (taking however long it
> took) and then you connected and downloaded it from there you got the
> absolute maximum throughput that your modem could manage, thus saving stuff
> for everyone.
>
>
As I recall ftp by email was reasonably common in the 90s. I think I may
even have written a client (in <cough> visual basic <cough>) that did
something similar, but memory is hazy
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