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From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: ftp - email gateways
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Date: 16 May 91 17:22:39 GMT
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larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>Princeton has closed the bitnet ftp<>email gateway which allowed
>ftp access via email - mailing back the files uuencoded --

ftp->email gateways are as big a travesty as email archive servers.
Until the servers can be educated about high-cost links and local
policies of the sites their sendings traverse, both should be severely
curtailed if not eliminated.  One site lost their MX connection from
UIUC because of archive server traffic.

/pbp
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Paul Pomes, Computing Services Office
University of Illinois - Urbana