Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!aunro!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! (UUNET email-ftp?) Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 17:51:25 GMT References: <1991May15.042146.29800@iguana.uucp> <81678@bu.edu> <4068@island.COM> <1991May22.081251.1026@uunet.uu.net> Distribution: na Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 27 asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) writes: >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. You don't have to. All that's required is that you provide a tool to get the files from uunet to the customers uucp gateway, via uucp. Let the customer site develop their own interface to the facility on their gateway machine if they require that functionality in house. uucp(1) is for transferring files - use *it*, not mail... >Until that point, we would rather use one of our operators to do the >ftping of files. I would be interested in knowing just how much "business" the ftp-request alias gets. And, do you have any idea how many of the requests are satified by replies to the effect "it's already here, in pub/... " ? -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc.ab.can.noam As a math athiest, I should be excused from this. --Calvin