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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UUdecode - Can someone post binary?
Summary: Pay closer attention and you'll see that I'm not unware of this...
Keywords: uudecode, binary
Message-ID: <8697@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 89 22:09:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)

[ Warning: No longer an Amiga discussion... ]

In article <8690@xanth.cs.odu.edu> tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes:
> [ announces that something is available via anonymous ftp ]

In article <6526@dayton.UUCP>, joe@dayton (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
>Please
>don't assume that telling someone "It's available from anonymous FTP"
>is going to do them a whit of good.

By the ftp logs on xanth, telling people ``It's available via
anonymous ftp'' apparently is doing some good.  You're assuming my
message was to that person alone -- if that were the case, I would
have used mail.  I post the availability of something via ftp because
it's useful to many people...

If you're saying that I should do more than just point them to an ftp
repository, well, perhaps you're right.  However, I can't offer to
mail people the stuff I announce simply because I don't have the time
to handle the demand.  But read on...

>The people who have access to FTP
>probably have a very good idea just what is and is not available. 

Not everyone knows what is available (probably because it is changing
all the time).  I can put a file up for ftp (such as uucode.zoo) and
the number of people retrieving it is minimal.  If it's mentioned in
comp.sys.amiga, the number of retrievals soars.

>The
>rest of us couldn't care less -- it's just frustrating knowing all this
>stuff is there just out of our reach.

So, you're suggesting that since you (and some others) can't ftp, that
I shouldn't announce when stuff is available via ftp?  Something's not
right with that logic...

Like drugs and guns, if you want something bad enough, you can get it.  
All you have to do is find someone at an Internet site willing to ftp
and mail stuff to you (I see you have a link with Rutgers -- perhaps
you know someone there?), or you can subscribe to a service like
UUNET, which gives you access to stuff available via ftp.  All you
have to do it put out the effort...

>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.

And on April 26, in message <8636@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, I wrote:
>PS: Yes, I know not everyone can do anonymous ftp.  Watch this
>    newsgroup for an announcement about this, too... ;-)

Perhaps this means I'll be a ``*really* Cool Guy'' soon...

	...tad