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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UUdecode - Can someone post binary?
Keywords: uudecode, binary
Message-ID: <6526@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 16:24:33 GMT
References: <220@isctsse.UUCP> <101354@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6967@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <6522@dayton.UUCP> <8690@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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In article <8690@xanth.cs.odu.edu> tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes:
>
>Amiga sources and binaries for uu{en,de}code are available via
>anonymous ftp from xanth.cs.odu.edu as /amiga/uucode.zoo.
>
>Perhaps I need an emacs function for postings like this?  :-)

Tad -- I know a lot of people have access to FTP, but a lot of us don't,
either!  It's all very fine to make these things available.  But please
don't assume that telling someone "It's available from anonymous FTP"
is going to do them a whit of good.  The people who have access to FTP
probably have a very good idea just what is and is not available.  The
rest of us couldn't care less -- it's just frustrating knowing all this
stuff is there just out of our reach.

Now, if you *really* wanted to be a Cool Guy, you could build up a
mail server so the rest of us could get stuff, too.  We just send
you a letter with a subject that says "mail index" or "mail file"
or whatever, and your server (which runs once a night or something)
could send us whatever it is we needed...

-J
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