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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 18 May 91 13:21:37 GMT
References: <OCCB4F3@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991May16.145758.6817@uu.psi.com> <1991May16.224338.286@crom2.uucp> <1991May17.183950.25550@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991May17.183950.25550@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Joe Buck) writes:
> The answer to reducing
> the long distance charges is for UUCP-only folks to set up more archive
> sites and more anonymous UUCP sites.  For those that wail, "but it costs
> money if I do that", it costs money whether you place the call yourself
> or pass the bill onto someone else.

It's not the money, it's the inconvenience. You have to:

	1) find a site with the package that allows anon-uucp.
	   a) Alternatively, ask some kind soul to ftp it to such a site.

	2) Establish a chat script for that particular site. This is
	   an interactive, often labor intensive, and tedious business.
	   a) You have to be the system operator to do this. This adds
	      to the load for system admins.

	3) Poll the site.

Instead you could do this:

	1) send a message to a mailserver.

	2) Unpack the file from a bunch of little messages into an archive.

Ideally, you should be able to do this:

	1) Queue a uux for that RFTP request.

> No one's saying "Screw you, Jack"; you have alternatives.  They are simply
> saying that they won't subsidize your large file transfers.

Fine. They gonna pay me the overtime for all the stuff that our developers
want or need, that I have to set up and poll myself because of the problems
establishing a reliable UUCP connection?
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"