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From: dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (David West)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Assistance for archive users
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Date: 2 Feb 88 18:55:30 GMT
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Summary: need mail archive-servers
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In article <6388@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>Yes, yes, yes. Where to get free software via ftp/uucp/whatever seems
>to be word-of-mouth knowledge. 

Perhaps the single most important "whatever" would be one or more mail
archive-servers, along the lines of netlib, but with the ability to
handle binary, perhaps by uuencoding.  It is not always easy, or even
possible, for some folks to retrieve archived material by ftp or uucp.
-David.