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From: hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Hans van Oostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: How to get files from piggy via mail
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Date: 23 Apr 91 13:21:44 GMT
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In article <15889112@mailgsm.mendelson.com>, root@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Superuser) writes...
>BITNET has a very strict charter concerning what you can and cannot do. Before
>anyone starts getting large files over the BITNET-INTERNET bridge, they should
>get permission of the people at Princeton (PUCC).
> 

You can avoid using BITNET by using the bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu 
address.  The question now is: is the bitftp only for people on BITNET?
If that were the case they (PUCC) should prevent sending files to 
non-BITNET addresses.  About your concern about too much use of a 
bitnet to internet gateway, there are many in the world, and usually 
you use the nearest gateway.  Here on the Universtity of Florida there 
are at least two machines that are on bitnet and internet, and can be 
used as a gateway. I don't see why I should get PUCC's permission if I 
use another (you can't always tell which one you use).
    There might be too much use of the bitftp service, but when I 
retrieved their help file it did not tell me anything about 'for 
BITNET users only'.  

By the way, there are other ftp servers, but I could not find their 
addresses.

Hans van Oostrom
PO Box J-254, JHMHC                 hans@ufpine                (BITNET)
Gainesville, FL  32601, USA         hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu    (INTERNET)
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