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From: amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.COM (Lord Bah)
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Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..."
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Mr. Xanth 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.

And once again I must correct someone to say that this is not the case.
It is probably true for 99% of email-capable sites, but as of my last
investigation (about 1 month ago) BITFTP does not support a PATH command
which would allow the sender to tell it how to send mail back.  It seems
that some sites mangle outgoing email to read "From: nobody@site.org",
and BITFTP only uses the From: line to determine how to return files.

On a related note, I've heard noises about an email archive server at
uunet, as well as something called AlterNET (run by uunet?), but I don't
know where to look for more details.  Any help?

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