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From: lentz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert A. Lentz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Cooperating on Sys7 distribution
Message-ID: <1991May10.233305.15754@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 23:33:05 GMT
References: <53216@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
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In article <53216@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes:
>Cooperating on 7.0 distribution is a great idea.
>
>In article <FRANCIS.91May10000430@arthur.uchicago.edu>, 
>francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes...
>
>>What can we do here? Obvious thing is *wait a while*.  
>...
>Any other suggestions (besides abstinence from ftp-ing) that
>could cut down a potentially crippling ftp load on apple.com?
>
>-- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)

If only one person at each site (here being university or company or
whatever) were to download it and let others who might attempt to ftp it
know that they can save some netbandwitdth and obtain it from him, this
might help, though unfortunately probably technically illegal according to
the license under which we ftp it.

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