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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 24 May 91 05:19:26 GMT
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In article <1991May18.172953.3331@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>And what's the alternative that lets me get a current directory listing
>from an ftp site that has offered to make something available?  Uunet
>has someone that handles ftp requests, but I would feel uncomfortable
>asking a person to check a remote directory on a weekly basis.  It didn't
>bother me at all to make such requests through bitftp.

You are bothered to use a service you pay for?  (If uunet loses money
doing this, they can always add a surcharge.)  Getting a remote
directory on a weekly basis sounds like a job for cron, not a human.
Tell uunet that you want it every week, and let them worry about if
they prefer to do in manually or automaticly.



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