Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!dik
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A counter-example for those who would eliminate PC binaries
Message-ID: <7575@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 2 Jul 88 17:45:05 GMT
References: <264@octopus.UUCP> <3302@s.cc.purdue.edu> <1988Jul1.043049.2418@ziebmef.uucp>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <1988Jul1.043049.2418@ziebmef.uucp> becker@ziebmef.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
 > 	maybe this has been suggested before here (or elsewhere), but
 > 	it seems like the time to look at the practice of other systems -
 > 	in specific, I am familiar with BitNet, which send out descriptions
 > 	of available binaries (source, documents, etc), and issues a pointer
 > 	to a thing called a "listserver" - this device (among other things)
 > 	will mail the requested file(s) to the requestor who sends a
             ^^^^
 > 	standardized form to it... this is all automatic, and requires no
 > 	human intervention once the files are made known to the server
 > 	in an appropriate manner.
And who pays?  (Yes we are a bit picky here.)
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