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From: abc@BRL.MIL (Brinton Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: [gwyn@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (: Re: Apples FTP site]
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Date: 5 Sep 89 15:57:18 GMT
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In article <8909040300.AA26232@trout.nosc.mil> bevans@pro-oz.cts.com (Brian Evans) writes:
-It was a little disappointing when I found out
-what an FTP site really was.  Therefore, the introduction of an FTP site
-for the good of all by apple last month, really meant nothing to myself
-and my fellow users who are very keen on this conference.
-Internet:       bevans@pro-oz.cts.com     Proline:        bevans@pro-oz

To which Doug Gwyn replied:
||
||I don't know why.  As an InterNet site you should be able to access the
||files by FTP (one of the basic InterNet standard protocols).
||
||Personally FTP is what I prefer.  I already snarfed some tech notes
||that for some reason my APDA subscription failed to obtain for me.
||It's a great service!
||
||----- End of forwarded messages

However, pro-oz.cts.com is not an Internet host.  It merely has a
registered domain-style address.  It is not on the internet.  The
significance of the name "pro-oz.com" is that there is an Internet host
(in this case, nosc.com) to which the e-mail actually goes.  The mail
gets to pro-oz by means outside the TCP/IP world.  In fact, it could
even be a UUCP connection.

Therefore, Brian Evans is correct.  FTP sites do nothing for him.

_Brint