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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (15)	12/3/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) of 20

Cool. That's right on the money. As bandwidth approaches MBIT/GBIT we truely have a "fat" network. About two years ago I jokingly said to a couple of friends that internet itself can be used as a storage medium; I called it "netdisk". They looked at me kind of funny and then I explained my wild idea about how I could modify an SMTP/POP3 daemon to continually "bounce" mail messages (send them to a bogus address, then they bounce back, we send them out again); mail messages which are actually data. In theory these messages float around living in mail spool directories on untold number of internet mail servers. When a user requests some data we wait for the message to return and deliver the data, then bounce it again. Also we could maintain a local cache for most recently accessed items. Latency is a problem, and mail delivery is not guaranteed so data could be lost ... but hey storage is free --- ISP's wouldn't be too happy! Cheers James

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