# Re: URLs for non-Internet networks?

Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand@joe.uwex.edu)
Wed, 21 Jul 93 12:45:53 -0500

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 12:45:53 -0500

    From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@joe.uwex.edu>

    Message-Id: <9307211745.AA02357@joe.uwex.edu>

    To: Rob Raisch <raisch@ora.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.
> </rr>
>

With a mail gateway, this is quite possible to do. Lot's of folks already use
mail servers for document delivery (that's the main access method for the
project I am on).

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