Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!quads.uchicago.edu!jcav From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) Subject: Re: The situation on apple.com Message-ID: <1991Mar18.182204.909@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) Organization: University of Chicago References: <154722@tiger.oxy.edu> <1991Mar17.171423.9360@cs.fau.edu> <1991Mar18.174200.16979@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 18:22:04 GMT In article <1991Mar18.174200.16979@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: >In article <1991Mar17.171423.9360@cs.fau.edu> ERTEM@ACC.FAU.EDUCan Ertem writes: >>Thanks for keeping the apple.com ftp site alive. >> >>What can we users do to get you guys some support from the Apple corporate >>types? > >Send email. If you've ever obtained anything useful from *.apple.com, >send people like mjohnson@apple.com effusive thank-you notes telling >them just how useful *.apple.com is, and exactly what it is that you >find useful about it. > >With a nice big pile of email thank -you's to show to the corporate >types, Mark and Tom and their cohorts have more ammunition in their >attempts to get some "official" support for the Apple FTP sites. The Apple Internet FTP site is mentioned in the latest APDALog as one of the supported sources of Apple developer products, so it looks like official support is here, or at least very close at hand. Yay! -- John Cavallino | EMail: jcav@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Hospitals | USMail: 5841 S. Maryland Ave, Box 145 Office of Facilities Management | Chicago, IL 60637 "Opinions, my boy. Just opinions" | Telephone: 312-702-6900