Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rui Maciel Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Ideas on solving the file transfer problem Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:59:29 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rui.maciel@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: AqItoBXOUTdaiWbH4r55cA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.7.3 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:1253 root wrote: > I know the OP requested that no third party be involved, but > if that requirement is relaxed OneSwarm is a free solution. I wasn't aware of OneSwarm. Looks interesting. Yet, it appears to be a service dedicated to P2P file sharing. If all a user wants to do is send a file to someoe else then posting it on a P2P network wouldn't be a reasonable thing to do, or an efficient way of doing things. Rui Maciel