Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 09:22:32 -1000
From: aboba@internaut.com (Bernard D. Aboba)
Message-Id: <9307211922.AA00807@internaut.com>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: URLs for non-Internet networks?
>URLs are simply instructions to retrieve a thing. The program doing the
>actual retrieval must know how to carry those instructions out. URLs
>*could* be used to reference objects on other, non-connected networks.
>They would be of little use, though, until there is a wide-spread way of
>retrieving from those nets.
There is a wide-spread way of retrieving from those nets. It's called
mail :) What I had in mind was support for mail-servers on UUCP,
BITNET LISTSERVs, etc. The URL might look something like:
<mail://user@host.domain/string-for-body-of-message-to-retrieve-file>