Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..." Re: shared X systems available Keywords: shX; XMX Message-ID: <1991Jan16.033026.12082@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 16 Jan 91 03:30:26 GMT References: <151@intrbas.UUCP> <1991Jan14.075202.13259@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <601@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 30 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > One of the better kept secrets on the net appears to be the ability of > _anyone_ who can use email to retrieve stuff from FTP sites. > Princeton University Computer Center runs a pro bono email<->ftp server... > to bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu, and you will receive a document showing ... kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes: > Kent, many of us do know about the bitftp servers. We also know that > several sites have sent very nasty notes about the use of these > servers because from a UUCP site the e-mail has to come back through a > UUCP site which is usually a gateway. Sure, but since the article I was answering was a request to have the same data emailed, the pliant about clogging the gateway is a bit on the irrelevant side; the data is going to go through in either case. The thing I object to is folks putting the burden of mailing the software on the originators, who could be better employed writing more software, rather than putting the burden on the recipients, by far the more interested and numerous parties, by having the recipients use the somewhat less facile bitftp mechanism. That desire to keep people from being boors, not a desire to bring the world's email gateways to their knees, was the reason for my posting. Kent, the man from xanth.