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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..."
Message-ID: <17532024@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 91 05:12:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.075202.13259@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <601@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <155824@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <155824@felix.UUCP> art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) writes:
>Other than bitftp, what other alternatives do UUCP only sites have?

You have answered your own question.  UUCP itself works just fine for
retrieving files.

There are a number of archive sites around the country offering
anonymous UUCP for the price of the phone call.  Osu-cis is one of them.
Read comp.archives for periodic listings.  UUNET also offers anonymous
UUCP although they do it with a 900 number (clever idea).

Now this doesn't help when Bjorn Bjornson announces that he's put his
latest Swedish Meatballs recipe in the FTP directory on ibsen.se.  And
actually this is the perfect moment for BITFTP -- the file is short,
nobody's likely to get overwhelmed providing access.  But suppose it's
the complete 'xinge' package in 39 parts?  What do you do?

Three options exist.  One, ignore the damn thing until you see it posted
in-country.  (Are all these windowing biorhythm simulators really THAT
important?  I wonder.)  Two, send Bjorn a magtape and some stamps and
thank him for being such a mensch.  Three, talk to your friendly
neighborhood Internet site and get THEM to FTP it into their public
directory, where you AND others can grab it via anon-UUCP, see above.