Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Is the Adobe server OK??? Message-ID: <73343244@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 14 Dec 90 04:50:48 GMT References: <1745@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <1990Dec14.082916.9142@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Lines: 24 Don't forget there are THREE different options for distributing files on demand: 1. Mail based archive server (MBAS) 2. Anonymous FTP 3. Anonymous UUCP These are not mutually exclusive! A properly configured site can offer all of them, or any subset. The big argument for anonymous FTP over MBAS is that it relieves intermediate sites of the burden of routing and carrying all that traffic. But the problem is that it leaves UUCP-only sites out in the cold. Well, that's where anonymous UUCP comes in. I ain't gonna be the one to do it, but it would be a big blessing if someone who administers a big archive site would promulgate a document telling how to set up a dual FTP-UUCP archive. -- 'The Nazis have no sense of humor, so why -| Tom Neff should they want television?' -- Phil Dick |- tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM