Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!falkor!heiby
From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Relief from 'MS-Kermit 2.31 1 of 9'
Message-ID: <172@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 03:54:12 GMT
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Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Jim Greenlee (jkg@gatech.UUCP) writes:
> 
> Anyway, I realized at the time that many people would not want the entire
> distribution, so I am willing to mail just the executables and help files
> to people that want only those files.
> 
> One word of warning - the executable-only files are still quite large (114K
> and 148K for MSVGEN and MSVIBM, respectively), so I will most likely mail 
> them out as multi-part uuencodes. I suspect that most folks will probably do 
> just as well to wait for all parts of the complete distribution.

I really appreciate Jim's having submitted the newest PC Kermit to this
newsgroup.  I expect to find good use for it and that many others will
find it useful, as well.

However, this offer to use other people's phone lines to mail 100K+ binaries
about *IS NOT* appreciated.  I'm quite sure that there are ways for people
to get this software.  One way is to wait for the nine parts to come over
the net.  Another is to send a few dollars to Columbia University.  Another
is to ask a friend who has it to mail you a floppy.  Perhaps "okstate" will
add this new version to their archives soon.  It is not acceptable to ask
someone to use other sites' phone lines to send such information by uucp mail.

I do my part.  I maintain archives of comp.sources.unix for anyone who
wants to pay for the phone call to pick them up.  Many people do.  I most
definately do not ship megabytes of comp.sources.unix via systems who just
happen to be well enough connected to lie between me and someone who needs
something.  I'd be more than happy to help someone set up a similar archive
for comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  Most of the info on how to do it is in my
"howto.snarf" file, already.

In summary, if I see monster binaries getting shipped via my system
(mcdchg), I reserve the right to nuke them.

		DO NOT mail huge files through my site.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"Failure is one of the basic Freedoms!" The Doctor (in Robots of Death)