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From: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "But _I_ can't FTP..."
Message-ID: <156527@felix.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 91 20:46:41 GMT
References: <17532024@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <156144@felix.UUCP> <1991Jan31.021908.15542@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA 92626
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In article <1991Jan31.021908.15542@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>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

Tried both, no luck.

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

Believe me, I have been very agressive (but polite) at times to get FTP
only packages via other means.

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

Yes to both.  In two cases specifically, the author offered before I
had a chance to ask.

>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

Our phones have 1-900 number specifically disabled.  As soon as I
found out about the 1-900 number for UUNET, I tried it, no cigar.

The bottom line is the unwillingness of my company to spend more than
a dime on anything that kills just about every attempt to get better
connected to the rest of the world.  Even netnews has been threatened
a few times.

D. Art Dederick (714)966-3618 {ccicpg,hplabs,oliveb,spsd,zardoz}!felix!art