RE: Additional thoughts on text transfers

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Richard Whalen wrote:

> > > No it doesn't.  It provies that it must be built into the protocol.
> > 
> > Then why does everybody write lines and lines of email instead of
> > writing a draft using the mechanisms provided by
> > 	draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02.txt
> 
> The mechanisms provided by draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02.txt fall short of
> what is needed to provide a text transfer mechanism.

Huh? The draft includes a clear and easy to use extension mechanism,
what is wrong with that?

-d