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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: sources, ftp, and mail
Keywords: source ftp mail usenet
Message-ID: <231@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 89 16:40:39 GMT
References: <820@adelphi.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <820@adelphi.UUCP>, markd@adelphi.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis ) writes:

|  2.  I notice several requests from people asking for someone to 
|  	"mail me the sources for xyz".  I would like to help, but
|  	don't know exactly how to mail them, and I don't want to
|  	get anyone angry.  Do I just mail the source code via email?
|  	Is this type of bandwidth usage frowned upon?

  You can package up sources into one or more mail files (keep them
under 50k) and send by mail. If you don't do this too often you will
probably not offend anyone (some people are easily offended, however).
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"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon