Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 17:47:47 GMT References: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 23 In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: > Agreeing to route mail is approval to route mail. This is the sort of logic that leads to UUPSI changing their contracts, to EUNET and JANET blocking outside mail, to sites dropping off the net. The net is a co-operative venture. This means that to make it work you have to co-operate. Co-operate means more then just running the right software, it means co-ordination, it means compromise, it means consideration. Cooperation. Coordination. Compromise. Consideration. > Nobody wants to handle this question. Why don't you pay attention. Ed and I have independently proposed a solution. Ed is implementing it. Think of it as pest control. You're saying that we should just put up with the mosquitos. Other people are advocating massive use of DDT. A better solution is to introduce a competing species that doesn't bite. UUCP accessible remote FTP servers... everyone wins. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"