Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Sul, 2004-12-05 at 09:47, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> Pros
> * sharing (ie sending) one file is easy

Or several because nautilus can do mulit-select

> * requires you to "push" the file to someone, ie. you have to worry
> about whether Bill is at his computer, and it is turned on at the moment
> you decide to start sharing

Send via email 8)

> * security concerns: spam and email viruses anyone? its easier to trust
> something you pulled down yourself

Disagree. Its very easy for a trojan to automate copying itself to a
fixed directory on a DAV server.

I've also been pondering the group one that was raised - "Send to
whiteboard" and some hypothetical whiteboard app seems to work.