Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 23:27:37 GMT References: <1991May15.042146.29800@iguana.uucp> <81678@bu.edu> <1705@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1991May16.154958.13266@crom2.uucp> Distribution: na Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 18 jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes: >There's a major difference between students who want games for their PCs >and faculty members who want software for gene sequencing or amino acid >analysis or Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics or numerical taxonomy or gas >chromatography or carbon-14 dating of palaeolithic strata or photoelectric >photometry of variable stars or.... I'll bet there are people at your own >university who have used BITFTP to obtain software of the latter types. >After all, you weren't always on the Internet. Har dee har har har har har! It was the PhD's who wanted games for their Amigas :-) -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc.ab.can.noam The only thing open about OSF is their mouth. --Chuck Musciano