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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..."
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Date: 22 Jan 91 12:53:44 GMT
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Let's turn this discussion around for a moment. I can ftp, but what about
alt.sources? Is there an FTP site somewhere trying to archive the group?
My feed doesn't get alt.*, apparently by policy (Stan, correct me if I'm
wrong), so I can't directly snarf things that appear there. The author of
one package recently posted there doesn't want to mail code to all and sundry
over a several-hop UUCP route to reach the Internet, and I can't really blame
him. This problem is most acute for alt.sources, since there are well-known
archive sites for most of the comp.sources.* groups (except c.s.games, whose
archive is only available via anonymous uucp). Help?

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein