Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!umich!vela!rigel.acs.oakland.edu!w8sdz From: w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: FTP Sites via listservers Summary: There are hundreds of BBS's that offer MS-DOS files for download Message-ID: <7256@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 02:00:25 GMT References: <9106121557.AA26550@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1991Jun14.171332.26840@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@vela.acs.oakland.edu Reply-To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives Lines: 25 saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: >A listing of sites with publicly-available uucp connections and of regular bbs-s >likely to be of more-than-average interest to usenetters would be interesting >too. As I've said elsewhere, long distance charges aren't such a big deal; >internet hookups and subscription fees are. And site administrators going nuts >trying to deal with the mail volume generated by mail-based servers are >starting to fight back (not to mention that if you can fetch it directly, you >get it a day or 2 sooner). Each month I upload Darwin's latest list of MS-DOS BBS's. There are literally hundreds of systems in all parts of the USA which offer many of the same files that are available on SIMTEL20, wuarchive, and garbo. Directory PD1; Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== USBBS85.ZIP B 57371 910603 Darwin's nationwide IBM BBS listing: 06/01/91 Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND