Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:5473 comp.mail.uucp:6543 news.admin:14435 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!umich!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Keywords: MSEN archive service comp.archives Message-ID: Date: 18 May 91 21:57:20 GMT References: <1991May16.145758.6817@uu.psi.com> <1991May16.224338.286@crom2.uucp> <1991May17.183950.25550@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991May18.172953.3331@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Reply-To: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc.) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us's message of 18 May 91 17:29:53 GMT In article <1991May18.172953.3331@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >No, the answer for UUCP-only sites who can't anonymous FTP is to anonymous >UUCP. There are a number of sites that provide this service; osu-cis, >uunet (in addition to providing the service for regular customers, they >have a 900 number so anyone can use the service). Not the same at all. Has anyone measured the average time between when a posting appears in comp.archives about some program's availability and the time it appears in an anon-uucp site? In most cases it's somewhere approaching infinity... I am prepared to say that MSEN will be able to ensure that as soon as a posting appears on comp.archives, it will be available through the MSEN archive service. (How can I promise this? Easy. I run comp.archives.) Since no one has infinite disk storages, there may be time lags for huge packages or for things announced a long time ago; getting the details right of the caching and refreshing of these packages to make sure there's not stale old stuff on disk is this summer's work. The key information (5000+ descriptions and locations of software packages) have already been taken care of. Our prices should be competetive with other internet service providers, and I think we can do a good job. For more information contact info@msen.com. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com