Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 11:33:46 GMT References: <1991May21.144815.8788@lsuc.on.ca> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 17 jim@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Mercer) writes: > In article stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) write > >merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes: > >> it's funny, you know, i get thank you letters from sysadmins and hate mail > >> from end users. > > And hate mail from admins, too. > > you are not an admin, you are a single user node. Well, I think I qualify as an admin, and I think that sites should be able to request files by mail so long as the intervening sites do not complain about the traffic. mathew