Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!tadguy From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..." Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 02:05:15 GMT References: <9101161845.AA15497@bisco.kodak.COM> Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.COM's message of 16 Jan 91 05:08:43 GMT In article <9101161845.AA15497@bisco.kodak.COM> amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.COM (Lord Bah) writes: > > 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. While the implementation of a PATH command would be nice for other reasons, it is not a substitute for fixing broken mailers. If someone's mailer generates an incorrect From: line, well, the mailer is broken... > 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? More information on these services is available by sending mail to . This is NOT an archive server, but a real person, so please use English... ...tad