Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief Keywords: anonymous uucp comp.archives ftpmail Message-ID: Date: 18 May 91 22:12:11 GMT References: <4131@polari.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Reply-To: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc.) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP's message of 18 May 91 17:07:19 GMT In article <4131@polari.UUCP> 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes: From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944 There are a lot of sites, but most of the source I really want (like source for non-UNIX machines, beta stuff, scientific reports, etc.) isn't available for anon UUCP. I do use anon UUCP for stuff that's available, but there's only so many times you can use a comp.sources.unix archive. What some kind site needs to do, is set up a mail->ftp->anon uucp service. It would work something like: Good description. There are a lot of details to attend to to get it right; it would be best to make sure that not just anonyone could force this hub site to go out ftp'ing things, since that could easily fill up its disks and swamp its internet connection. Access will have to be metered out somehow to control overload. Most "kind sites" are kind for ulterior motives (sorry), they have some collection of information that they particularly are interested in and want to disseminate. Providing a general purpose internet archive service is work, and doesn't generally make sense for individual sites to give away for free unless they need it for some other reason -- BITFTP to get ftp stuff to BITNET paying members, corporate mail-ftp services to handle bits of the corporation without direct internet access. Any general purpose UUCP-able dialup archive service will have to either charge enough to cover marginal costs of production (or more, if there's any profits to be had) or will always be short on resources. (Prices? Who knows? $xx/month + $x.xx/hour + $xx startup, plus telco charges, looks to be the right order of magnitude.) -- Edward Vielmetti moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com