Re: ftp'ing with outsiders?

Yousendit.com is one possibility.

They've got some free (<100MB) options, and some that you pay for.

Easier and maybe safer than ftp (presuming you trust them).

(My personal opinion only- not endorsed/recommended/even thought about
by anybody in an official capacity etc etc.)

I've used them, no issues that I'm aware of.

-Jay

Rob Weinberg wrote:
> This comes up often enough:
>
> Someone needs to get a big file delivered from someone ("client")
> off-campus, but it's too big for the client's emailer to load up as an
> attachment. Assume that the client's computer knowledge is limited.
>
> How do I get the file? Maybe by disk in the mail is the safest way,
> but what about ftp?
>
> What do y'all do? Any of these? something else?
>
> * turn on ftp on a workstation, enable it just following a phone call
> or email for a particular file transfer, then disable ftp after the
> transfer
>
> * turn on ftp on a workstation/server and just leave it on, perhaps
> "write only" so your client can drop a file but no-one can browse or
> download files via ftp (seems dangerous to leave ftp turned on)
>
> * pay $9 a month for space on a third-party internet service provider
> and use that as an off-campus transfer point
>
> * use a plug-in for Firefox that allows gmail to be used as an ftp
> account (Haven't tried it myself)
>
> ??
>
> thanks -
> Rob
>
>

-- 
Jay Bryon
Senior Network Engineer, U.C. Berkeley/IST/IS/NSO 
jay_at_berkeley.edu
2-5636
"Any idiot can be complex, it takes real genius to be simple"
-Al Einstein
[Unless stated explicitly otherwise, all opinions are my own (or Al's) and do not represent official policy of any part of IST, U.C. Berkeley or the U.C. Regents.]  
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