Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:6602 news.admin:14515 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 20:28:12 GMT References: <1991May17.121003.15644@oar.net> <1991May20.131422.29601@uu.psi.com> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: schoff@uu.psi.com's message of Mon, 20 May 91 13:14:22 GMT In article <1991May20.131422.29601@uu.psi.com> schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall) writes: >(Past experience: when PSI was hyping their telnet-able white pages, >I asked if there was a way that UUCP sites could access it. The answer >was "Pay us more money for a higher level account." ) I kind of doubt if anyone said that a telnet'able resource could be available through ftp. I think we know the difference between telnet and ftp. But you could have sold your dial-up customers access to a restricted telnet shell that only connected to that one white pages service, no? They're already dialing up some kind of terminal server, this would have been one more service. Ditto access to other services available through telnet-style connections, e.g. access to archie, "knowbot" stuff, full-text search through interesting databases, etc etc. It could be done without going to all of the expense of connecting them for a full TCP/IP connection. Naturally these services are hard to provide if you're selling flat-rate access to your dialups; don't want those people sitting on the modem all day and not getting billed for it. --Ed