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From: mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: mail based servers are not the magic bullet
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.051007.10779@vort.uucp>
Date: 22 Jan 91 05:10:07 GMT
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Organization: VORT Computing, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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In Article 1099 of comp.sources.wanted, Andy Purshottam
	(root@wdl1.wdl.loral.com) says...

> Given the avail of the wonderful archie snarfing database,
> is it appropriate that people no longer ask for locations of known 
> named programs, and given avail of bitftp, stop asking
> for such to be mailed to them? Of course, appropriately vague
> requests would still be welcome. As a first step, I have been mailing 
> offensively long archie output to thise making simple queries to c.s.w.

Many sites are now censoring mail to/from such servers, leaving those
of us without FTP access dead-in-the-water. If "simple" requests bug
you so much, try unsubscribing to comp.sources.wanted.

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