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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Is the Adobe server OK???
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.171428.25741@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Dec 90 17:14:28 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.022137.25202@groucho> <1990Dec12.110241.20350@santra.uucp> <JWZ.90Dec12105404@sunvalleymall.lucid.com>
Reply-To: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
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In article <1990Dec12.022137.25202@groucho> agcomp2@idui1.csrv.uidaho.edu (Paul Kearns) writes:
>I haven't ordered anything from the Adobe ps-file-server in a while, but when
>I've tried during the past week or so, I get "Host adobe.com unknown".  Do I
>have the wrong address?  As far as I know, our nameserver is OK; it can find
>other addresses with relative ease...  The address I have for the server is
>ps-file-server@adobe.com.  Sorry to be dumb, but it's been one of those days... 

It is working OK through the Janet-Internet gateway (ps-file-server@com.adobe,
but you all know that we write addresses backwards here, don't you?)

In article <JWZ.90Dec12105404@sunvalleymall.lucid.com> jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
> {w.r.t. making Adobe fileserver contents available via Internet 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 
>remote ftpable directories, and read things at my leisure without having to
>for the stuff to be sent to me.

I am sure that many people would find it useful to have ftp access, but
for <%deity>'s sake keep the mail server mechanism as well. Not everyone
in the world has access to Internet FTP, and even when we do it may
require an inordinate amount of time and effort to use.

Chris Thompson
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