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From: prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: UseNet/Internet/FTPing, etc. (was:Re: From a fairly new FTP user. . .)
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Date: 31 Oct 90 00:27:37 GMT
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Unknown User,

Just because someone has FTP access doesn't mean that they are using
rn or nn.  At this site, I have ftp access via Sun3 or NeXT, but neither
have the disk capacity (yet :) for holding a sizable amount of articles
from a full feed.  Hence, we are limited to subscribing to newsgroups
to be received as mail on a PR1ME system (with a very lame mail handler).
If you haven't heard of a PR1ME, it's a fairly antiquated mainframe
with some really strange quirks.  I guess it was relatively cheap, though.

I'm not sure about how people on BITNET handle ftp'ing.  Anyone?

-Dale
prophet@oxy.edu