Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: help starting archive mail server Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 23:10:57 GMT References: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 30 First of all, I didn't mean to imply that Anonymous UUCP was a bad thing, or intend to denigrate your service. It's just frustrating having this little peephole into the internet, and then have folks running Anonymous UUCP sites trying to convince people to shut that peephole down further. Both mailservers and anonymous UUCP have their place. In article karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: > peter@ficc.ferranti.com writes: > Why should we have to switch to an even more expensive transport mechanism? > Because MBASes inflict their costs on a blortful of unsuspecting good > neighbors. The person who wants the stuff ought to be the one who > pays for it. That's us, or any UUNET customer. If we get it via a mail server, we're paying for it. What I really really would like to see is UUNET providing an RFTP service: uux - uunet\!rftp ~uucp/receive/peter OPEN archive.big-university.edu CD ~ftp/comp-sources-intel GET plmlib/Part01 plmlib.1 GET plmlib/Part02 plmlib.2 GET plmlib/Part03 plmlib.3 CLOSE QUIT But since they don't, a mail-server is the next best bet. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.