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From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May24.132858.16945@world.std.com>
Date: 24 May 91 13:28:58 GMT
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fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:

>Why in the world would someone who's on the Internet want to use an MBAS to
>get something that's directly ftp'able?

Because, depending on where you are on the Internet, FTP doesn't always reach
all sites.  I'm not talking about the inability to reach another Internet site
because of network load or a busy remote machine.  I'm talking about the
inability to reach some other sites at all.

>  Bill
>--
>Bill Fenner     fenner@jazz.psu.edu     ..psuvax1!hogbbs!wcfpc!wcf
>                wcf@hogbbs.scol.pa.us   (+1 814 238-9633 2400MNP5)

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