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From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! (UUNET email-ftp?)
Message-ID: <1991May22.081251.1026@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 22 May 91 08:12:51 GMT
References: <1991May15.042146.29800@iguana.uucp> <81678@bu.edu> <4068@island.COM>
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In article <4068@island.COM>, daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith "innovation, not litigation...") writes:
> > They can send mail to ftp-requesdt@uunet.uu.net and request the files
> > be transfered for them. Why uunet doesn't provide a service like BITFTP
> > for DIRECTLY connected customers is beyond me.
> 	I wholeheartily second this!  I've used ftp-request on occasion,
> but the turnaround time isn't as good as what would be possible if uunet
> were to run the type of software that Princeton is using.

If someone can write some software that can distinguish between
	customer!customer-node!user
and
	customer!non-customer-node!user
for all customers w/o us having to keep a database of interior customer
nodes, then we will consider running it.

Until that point, we would rather use one of our operators to do the
ftping of files.

	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)