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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Alternatives to FTP
Keywords: UUCP FTP dark ages
Message-ID: <10701@claris.com>
Date: 28 Nov 89 21:28:32 GMT
References: <869@pmafire.UUCP>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <869@pmafire.UUCP> geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes:
>As you can tell by the .UUCP in my address above, our site is still in
>the dark ages of computer networking and I can't do nifty stuff like FTP
>apple or sumex to lay my hands of copious amounts of wonderful
>free/shareware.  So my question is:  what alternatives are there for
>those of us in my situation.  (We do get comp.binaries.mac, so that
>provides some stuff, but it doesn't have the flexibility I want.)
>
>Are there any listservers for these sites (or any others with good Mac
>libraries)?  How would I use it?
>
>Any other possibilities?

Wouldn't it be great it Apple set up a developer support BBS?  I know they
have AppleLink, but not everyone has access to this.  That's why they set
up the Internet access.

Just a simple public BBS that contained an archive of the files found on
the Internet.  People might have some big phone bills, but at least they
could get these important files if they had no other way...

Just a thought...   :-)

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