Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: the 100 lines postings.. Message-ID: Date: 12 May 91 21:06:58 GMT References: <1991May8.090859.21756@dhw68k.cts.com> <1991May9.015611.5560@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991May11.144445.4241@dhw68k.cts.com> <1991May12.195538.22220@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 32 tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) writes: >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, The fix to that problem is to have a ls-LR and a new files list available on the ftp site, not to post to the net. I agree that the 100 lines... postings are at best annoying. >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. [stuff deleted] >-- > Tom Maddox > tmaddox@milton.u.washington.edu > "It is imperative to write invulnerable sentences." -- Hugo Ball -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who