Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!mcs213f.cs.umr.edu!mcastle
From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Elvis-->Docs, Program, and Source (Stop Whining)
Message-ID: <1677@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 21:26:01 GMT
References: <16951@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1888@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <1990Nov15.090915.10426@uwasa.fi>
Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Lines: 25

Out of curiosity, how many sites have news, but don't have either ftp OR e-mail?
I guess that if the site can send and receive news that the physical connections
exist, but does not necessarily have the software.

I know that when I used the CSEG BBS in Arkansas that it was both on the 
internet and carried news.  However, it didn't have ftp OR email.  (The 
internet access was used for people on the net to access the BBS, but 
locals couldn't access the net.  I may be wrong about this as I didn't have
a decent way of accessing the BBS at the time I was using it, so didn't play
with it much).  I know this didn't affect me, as I was using telnet to access
it, but I don't *think* that the locals could get out.

Anyway, the point is that sites do exist with their ONLY connection to the 
outside world being news.  They can't use ftp, nor can they use the e-mail
servers.  But, how wide spread it that, I wonder?  

Sorry that this is rather incoherent, but I didn't get much sleep.  :->  Such 
is the life of a college student.  :->

Chiaow (purposeful butchering of spelling intended),
-- 
Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred)       | ERROR:  Invalid
                    mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr (unix mail-YEACH!)| command 'HELP'
Life is like a clock:  You can work constantly, and be right | try 'HELP'
all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day.  |