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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Software Obsolescence (Really acquiring sources)
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 21:54:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 21:54:47 1987
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Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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|And then there are those that say:
|
|	"Those sources are available via anonymous ftp at site X."
|
|Which is all well and good for those that are on the Internet.  This has
|been my number one complaint about trying to get sources.  I suppose I
|should be more specific about my situation by explaining that my site is
|NOT able to do anonymous ftp.  I do appreciate that the ftp-ers are trying
|to help, it's just that it doesn't.

If a site says that, perhaps it is exactly because they are not willing
to pay the uucp phone bills to send it to you. And although it may not
help you directly, you may find a friendly nearby Internet site that
has snagged it via ftp who will uucp it to you and thus help you
indirectly.

In other words, don't feel discriminated against. These Internet sites
are doing a little to help.

	Ken