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From: tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: re the 100 lines postings..
Message-ID: <1991May12.195538.22220@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 19:55:38 GMT
References: <1991May8.090859.21756@dhw68k.cts.com> <1991May9.015611.5560@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991May11.144445.4241@dhw68k.cts.com>
Organization: The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
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In article <1991May11.144445.4241@dhw68k.cts.com> bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) writes:
>I was questioning their usefulnes, given that someone in a position to FTP a
>file could just as easily FTP an index first.  There are a number of FTP sites
>archiving various things on intest to various people.  If everyone was to post
>a blow-by-blow listing of what was being added to their archives, there'd be
>room for little else on the net.  


	You mean like the regular, large postings about Simtel 20 on 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc?  The very good reason for posting a list of recent 
additions to the Michigan site is that there is no new files listing.  Also, 
given the relatively large number of files (and directories), such a listing 
does a service to those who use what has become one of the two most active mac
ftp sites in the country.

>Additionally, each article costs each site
>some amount of money, even if they have no intest in the index.  Let those
>who are interested pay for the FTP access to an index at the archive site.

	Great idea.  And we'll do the rest of the net the same way.  
Starting with you:  you send me a list of newsgroups you're interested in, and
I'll bill you for the ones I find boring or useless.
-- 
				Tom Maddox
			tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu
	"It is imperative to write invulnerable sentences."  --  Hugo Ball