Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:6527 news.admin:14411 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 18 May 91 02:03:22 GMT References: <1991May17.121003.15644@oar.net> Organization: Mad Scientist Lines: 26 karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes: > jim@crom2.uucp writes: > >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! > > Oh, blow it out your ear. > > It was positively routine when I ran osu-cis' archives to get mail > from people saying, "I've been told that there's a package called > bletch.tar.Z living on foo.bar.baz:pub/extraneous and I really need to > pick it up. Could you possibly make it available on osu-cis?" Based on past experience with PSI, and on the posting from them on this matter, I can predict with certainty what their response will be were I to ask them to do something like that. "Pay us more money and you can ftp it yourself." (Past experience: when PSI was hyping their telnet-able white pages, I asked if there was a way that UUCP sites could access it. The answer was "Pay us more money for a higher level account." )