Also, with web services, you can put the data directly into a database. No preliminary processing required.
>The nicer thing (IMO) with FTP and Web Services is that you can confirm that what you send has been received. Also with Web services you can respond intelligently so your application knows that what it sent has not only been received but processed (or not) at the web server end. I often think that email communications are a bit like firing your messages off into the dark. thye may get there but you don't really know.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer