Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!milton!sumax!polari!gcs From: gcs@polari.UUCP (Greg Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: <4143@polari.UUCP> Date: 19 May 91 13:13:06 GMT References: <1991May15.042146.29800@iguana.uucp> <1991May17.041635.4503@iguana.uucp> Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944 Lines: 21 In article <1991May17.041635.4503@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes: > >No! BITFTP is a terrible DIS-service to the entire UUCP community. > It appears all this moaning & groaning about uucp and bitftp has shutdown the internet/bitftp service also (at least temporarily). From my perspective on an mmdf subhost connected via short haul to an internet site, the real convenience of bitftp was I could fire off a request for a needed file, then go about my business confident bitftp would eventually deliver. Interactive ftp, on the other hand, requires more attention. Hopefully, princeton will one day drop the uucp (if that is the problem) and reinstate the internet portion of the service. I know this sounds selfish, but the main gripe seems to be coming from uucp-land. Why should the internet service suffer as well? -- Greg Sheppard Internet: imop@wa-ngnet.army.mil WAARNG, Tacoma, WA, USA UUCP: ...!polari!gcs Voice: +1 206 581 8924 --