Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:5446 comp.mail.uucp:6511 news.admin:14377 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!nstar!crom2!jim From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: <1991May16.224338.286@crom2.uucp> Date: 16 May 91 22:43:38 GMT References: <81678@bu.edu> <1705@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1991May16.145758.6817@uu.psi.com> Distribution: na Organization: Abbey Technologies - Athens GA Lines: 27 schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall) writes: > Most service providers are interesting in guaranteeing a level of service > reliability every hour of every day of the year, across all of their > customers. No one every succeeds, but that is the goal, if you get > 95%+ you survive, if you get 99.9%+ you thrive. > > Mailing files is one of those things that doesn't work very reliably, > due to many factors from error correction, to memory utilization, to > installed base of mailer constraits, to resource constraints, etc. > I've seen this debate for a decade, and I'm sure it continue forever. > >To transfer files we use a tried and true mechanism: FTP. Can you say "0% reliability?" FTP to uucp-only sites doesn't work AT ALL. What's your advice for them? "Screw you, Jack, I've got mine?" Harrumph! Jim ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- crom2 Athens GA Public Access Unix | i486 AT, 16mb RAM, 600mb online | AT&T Unix System V release 3.2 Molecular Biology | Tbit PEP 19200bps V.32 V.42/V.42bis Population Biology | Ecological Modeling | Admin: James P. H. Fuller Bionet/Usenet/cnews/nn | {jim,root}%crom2@nstar.rn.com ------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------