# Re: URLs for non-Internet networks?

Bernard D. Aboba (aboba@internaut.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 93 09:22:32 -1000

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    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>

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