Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!udel!sbcs!csws3.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The situation on apple.com Message-ID: <1991Mar22.180207.15934@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 22 Mar 91 18:02:07 GMT References: <1991Mar20.145515.19996@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 23 In article francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu writes: > >In article <1991Mar20.145515.19996@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> >dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes (quoting me): > > >Of course--but if you're limiting FTP access to people who have > >AppleLink access, you're not doing a lot of good. (Except for saving > >them phone money--which shouldn't be a problem if they can afford to > >be registered developers. > > They would save all the aeons it takes to transfer stuff over modems. > >Ah. Point taken. > >(Remembering the one time I used a modem to get stuff from Sumex...) > >-- >/============================================================================\ >| Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| >| Department of Mathematics |=============================================| >| University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | >| francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | >\============================================================================/