Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:8830 comp.sources.d:5716 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!momma From: momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Bitnet FTP server via MAIL for any ftp-able site?? True?? Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 16:39:41 GMT References: <14965@imagen.UUCP> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 31 In-reply-to: glenn@imagen.UUCP's message of 31 Jul 90 20:49:04 GMT In article <14965@imagen.UUCP> glenn@imagen.UUCP (Glenn Boozer) writes: > I just found out that there is a [at least one] Bitnet site that has a > mail server that will ftp files from any ftp-able site, via a mailed > batch file, and mail them back to the originator. > > Is this true? I wish I remembered the site name. > > Thanks > G. Boozer (408) 986-9400x508 [All spelling errors were made by the computer] > QMS/Imagen [PostScript is what we do best] > Santa Clara, Ca boozer%mswind@mips.com or > glenn@imagen.com or glenn%imagen@sun.com or {decwrl|sun}!imagen!glenn yes, it is true. It is also one of the major reasons for the current inoperability of BITNET (at least as far as transatlantic traffic is concerned, since all that ftp-traffic clogs up the network immensly and beyond usability. Therefore, I will not help you remembering the site name, sorry. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Stefan Momma voicemail:+49-711-121-1431(secret.:-3125,fax:-3500) Projekt Polygloss Internet: momma@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de IMS-CL/IfI-AIS Because-It's-There-NET: nbab1424@ds0rus54 University of Stuttgart ICBMnet : 48 46 36 N; 9 10 48 E; alt 245 m Sneakernet: Keplerstr. 17, D-7000 Stuttgart 1, FRG -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-