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From: comparc@twwells.uucp (comp.archives)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: Re: Need Anon UUCP Acces To Internet Archive
Message-ID: <159@twwells.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 88 00:20:24 GMT
References: <358@itivax.UUCP> <156@twwells.uucp> <44443@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Reply-To: comparc@twwells.UUCP (comp.archives)
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale
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Approved: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)

In article <44443@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
: In article <156@twwells.uucp>, comparc@twwells.uucp (comp.archives) writes:
: >
: > If, on the other hand, you are looking for a site that translates
: > your uucp request into an ftp access, I dunno. Let's see if anyone
: > has an answer.
:
: Thats one of the things that the connect charge for uunet covers.
: You can send mail and ask that a file be ftped for you and uucp'd
: to your machine.

The idea I have in mind is a gateway that one could send to, that
knows about ftp and could automatically translate a uucp-generated
request into an ftp access and then forward the retrieved files
through uucp.  From what I understand of ftp, that can't be done to
arbitrary sites, but I could imagine a gateway that knew about a
particular set of archive sites.

Supposing that the gateway were called ftp-relay and it knew about
archive foo.bar, one would do anonymous uucp to that archive with a
command like:

	uucp ftp-relay!foo.bar!/pub/file.Z ~/file.Z

presuming that one had an L.sys for ftp-relay.

Is this a reasonable idea?  Does anyone know of anything like it?

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Bill
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