Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: even better chat2.pl, and a useful (but simple) ftp client! Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 09:32:00 GMT References: <1991Apr30.203058.23304@iwarp.intel.com> <132095@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: rbj@uunet.UU.NET's message of 7 May 91 21:49:49 GMT In article <132095@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: Why do you think "rget" isn't in the ftp client? The answer isn't technical, it's political. It's always a problem when political considerations work their way into technical developments. Certainly there are risks involved in commands which have the potential of transferring large amounts of data without too much effort; links clog up, computers get busy, paying customers get unhappy that their machines don't work so hot. But don't interfere with my ability to work efficiently. People, PLEASE BE CAREFUL about where and when you point this thing. If you point it at us, please do so during the daytime. I would think that uunet would welcome the deveopment of better ftp client tools, especially those which would facilitate the development of efficient and effective shadow archives. Since much of UUNET's gigabyte worth of stuff is shadows of stuff which is originally available on other sites, it would seem reasonable to build tools to periodically tap the original sites on the shoulder and note whether anything new has happened there in the past month. (or be tapped on the shoulder by something which watches for new developments, like comp.archives.) Good things to do intelligent recursive ftp's should be welcomed. -- Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc. moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "often those with the power to appoint will be on one side of a controversial issue and find it convenient to use their opponent's momentary stridency as a pretext to squelch them"