Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:5652 comp.mail.uucp:6774 news.admin:14933 Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!bony1!stevef From: stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski) Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: <1991Jun4.151838.7885@bony1.bony.com> Organization: The Bank of New York References: <1991May16.224338.286@crom2.uucp> <1991Jun2.151614.65@cmkrnl.uucp> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 15:18:38 GMT In article <1991Jun2.151614.65@cmkrnl.uucp> jeh@cmkrnl.uucp writes: > >Of course you can get it. All you need to do is to do exactly what all the >existing Internet sites have done: Pay for some form of tcp/ip link to the >Internet. > >It may be that your budget does not allow for this. (Mine doesn't.) Fine, >you can sign up with uunet, but use them ONLY for uucp'ing stuff that you ask >them to grab for you via ftp. The cost for this is not all that high. > > --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA >Chair, VMS Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VAX Systems SIG >Internet: jeh@dcs.simpact.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com >Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!cmkrnl!jeh There is another aspect to the issue. The bank I work for can certainly afford to pay for a tcp/ip link. However, for security (read paranoid) reasons, management will never go for it. Hell, it took us months to convince management to allow us to have a uucp based mail/news feed from Uunet. Now, since we *PAY* for connection to uunet, and we *DONT* go thru anyone else's system, there would be no harm for us calling upon the services of an MBAS. Without one, we are restricted to what we can get directly from uunet, which is (naturally) far from having a complete archive. Would be nice if uunet implemented an MBAS like thing for its customers... - Steve - -- ======================================================================= Internet: stevef@bony1.bony.COM | The Bank Of New York | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bang : uunet!bony1!stevef | Reality is Nobody's Dream