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From: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..."
Message-ID: <156144@felix.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 91 15:39:26 GMT
References: <601@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <155824@felix.UUCP> <17532024@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Reply-To: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
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In article <17532024@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>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

Perfect example and one that happens all the time.  This does not have
to be out-country though.  Some packages are posted to FTP only sites
in the goog o'l US of A and I'm still not able to get to them.

>Three options exist.  One, ignore the damn thing until you see it posted
>in-country.  (Are all these windowing biorhythm simulators really THAT

I'll be dead before some of this stuff gets posted.

>important?  I wonder.)  Two, send Bjorn a magtape and some stamps and
>thank him for being such a mensch.

Right, I've lost some good tapes & floppies this way not to mention the
"stamps".

>  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.

What friendly neighborhood Internet site?  I'd give my first born for
an account on a local Internet site (hint hint).

D. Art Dederick
(714) 966-3618
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