Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..."
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.021908.15542@eci386.uucp>
Date: 31 Jan 91 02:19:08 GMT
References: <601@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <155824@felix.UUCP> <17532024@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <156144@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
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In article <156144@felix.UUCP> art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick) writes:
> 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.

Send mail to the author asking for directions to a UUCP server.  If
you can't find one, ask the author for a one-time direct UUCP
connection.  If there are enough requests, something may be done about
it.

> >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.

You answer is moot.  You don't have to wait if you take the pro-active
approach and go get it yourself.

> >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".

Did you ask the recipient of your tapes first?  Did you politely
remind them afterwards?

> >  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).

Do you read comp.archives?  Try your local university.  If you point
out to them that you may have to ask for someone to mail things to you
that just might go through them, they may opt for anon-UUCP.

Last, but not least, as others have mentioned, there's UUNET.  If
there's a package not on UUNET, ask them to get it, then use the 1-900
number to anon-UUCP it from them.  I'm sure they will be more than
happy to help you out.
-- 
							Greg A. Woods
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