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From: leech@ornat.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: HST transmissions
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Date: 2 Jun 90 06:12:00 GMT
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In article <1990May30.174352.9182@portia.Stanford.EDU> paulf@jessica.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty) writes:
>encrypted (with something presumably stronger than DES).  It would be
>the proverbial good thing if someone at STSCI would make some of the
>images available via anonymous ftp....

    It would certainly not be a good thing for their network
connection and whatever machine hosted the images, as it would rapidly
be swamped under hundreds to thousands of connections.	Using the
Internet to copy large images merely to satisfy people's curiosity
and/or give them more background bitmaps is not wise.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``There ain't hardly nothin' cuter nor a sleepin' baby tad
      lessen it's a pork chop'' - Churchy La Femme