ftpmail

Another short-lived Internet technology. Ftpmail servers would email you a file
in response to a specially formatted email request. It was an alternative to
getting the file directly from the FTP server. It was useful to the many people
who didn't have true Internet access - just email. It was also good if access to
the file you wanted was rather poor - you got the ftpmail server to do all the
waiting for you.
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