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From: dennisg@kgw1.xetron.COM (Dennis Glatting)
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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 23 May 91 17:38:25 GMT
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In article <1705@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
|>	[ stuff deleted ]

|> There are enough machines out there providing anonymous UUCP access 
|> to software archives that use of BITFTP from UUCP sites is no longer
|> justifiable. If you want the software, you can bloody well pay your own
|> phone line charges to pick it up. Maybe you didn't want that software so 
|> badly after all ...
i used  bitftp a fair amount.  one such example is retrieving
OO papers from geneva.  i do pay for my phone line charges.  i have a
uunet account.  (i assume there aren't any other charges involved).

i want bitftp!

|> As an example of making the user pay, about a year ago I decided to
|> stop carrying the comp.binaries groups here at AU. There were a number
|> of reasons for doing this: potential viruses and cost in modem time and
|> disk space being two of them. When we informed the user community of
|> the change there was no end of howling and bitching from the PC users
|> who were used to getting all this "free software" from the net.
we pitched binaries because of virus threats.  

|>	[ remainder deleted ]

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 ..!uunet!kgw2!dennisg  | Dennis P. Glatting
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