Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 21:35:40 GMT References: <6qJa31w163w@phoenix.com> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 24 stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: > I am one hop from the Internet. There is no store and forward. There >is nobody to pay storage fees to (that I am not already paying). If it >is correct to be able to anonymous ftp if I were directly on the >Internet, then it is just as correct to pass the same traffic over the >Internet in mail form. In either case, the traffic flows over the >Internet. It does NOT come through lsuc, so lsuc has no right to tell me >that I am abusing uupsi. But you are probably violating the usage agreements of the various regional networks that your internet mail traverses. Do you think all those leased lines and routers come for free? > You CAN predict the routing of mail in UUCP land. It is called a >bangpath. I can force UUCP mail to travel any specific route I want. Heh heh. Most of his outbound uucp mail goes through rutgers :-) -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc.ab.can.noam As a math athiest, I should be excused from this. --Calvin