Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Is the Adobe server OK??? Summary: tisk, tisk Message-ID: <1745@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 14 Dec 90 01:32:44 GMT References: <1990Dec12.022137.25202@groucho> Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 19 In article , jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes: > In article <1990Dec12.110241.20350@santra.uucp> alo@kampi.hut.fi (Antti Louko) > wrote: > > > > Adobe should cooperate with some friendly Internet-connected site > > which could put all current and new files in Adobe file server under > > anonymous ftp. > > I *very* much hope this happens. I never make use of the Adobe server because > I despise mail servers. Using GNU Emacs and ange-ftp.el I can run dired on Internet access costs to much for most folks. My node does not have it, it would cost $15,000.00 per year for internet access and FTP. Probably more people are in that boat than have FTP access. The mail server is more general, *everyone* can get at a mail server. If you want to be an anti-mail server person, fine, but the mail server should stay. If you choose not to use it, it is your loss. Cheers Woody