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From: gjb@unirot.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: UUCP access to info-mac (really: alternatives)
Message-ID: <887@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 00:31:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: unirot.887
Posted: Mon Jul 21 00:31:50 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jul-86 07:43:22 EDT
References: <19@sickkids.UUCP> <610@ihlpf.UUCP> <348@cernvax.UUCP> <3675@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Reply-To: gjb@unirot.UUCP (Greg Brail)
Organization: Public Access Un*x, Piscataway NJ (The Soup Kitchen)
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Summary: Why don't we try a UUCP file server?

In article <3675@ut-ngp.UUCP> werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>
>In article <610@ihlpf.UUCP> stuart@ihlpf.UUCP writes:
>>> This has probably been asked (and answered!) many times, sorry...
>>> Can I download something from the info-mac archive if I have direct
>>> access to Usenet only?  I can send messages to Arpanet, but I am not
>
>In general, many ARPA-bboard moderators will send archived files on request
>to sites that cannot FTP.  I doubt that the current group (not one) of
>net-friends that keep INFO-MAC humming are doing so at the moment, as they
>may not have the extra time and energy.  But anyone on ARPA could stand up
>and volunteer for that duty, so maybe we should have a request for a volunteer
>(name your "bribes"), best residing at a site that has some/most/all of the
>archives available locally.

I remember reading a while ago about a machine that had a server
which sent sources back to people who sent a request message to it.
Is this true? Where is it?

But if it's not true, it sounds like a good idea.  One machine (or
maybe several machines, for different regions of the net) could
respond to messages by sending the appropriate sources back to the
sender. This machine would have to be one which has all sources that go
to ARPAnet, Usenet, CompuServe, and Delphi, if possible. It would be
a UUCP file server.

I'm sure somebody has tried or suggested this before. Why not another
try? For one, it would take care of "could you please repost..."
problems, and perhaps allow users of machines without enough disk
space to hold sources for more than a few days, if at all, like the
one I'm using.

Anyone else have any ideas?

		    -Greg
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Greg Brail  	(Greg @ The Soup Kitchen)
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