Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!grwalter
From: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga-Archive mail server (was Re: UUdecode - Can someone post binary?)
Keywords: uudecode, binary
Message-ID: <25706@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 89 22:33:27 GMT
References: <220@isctsse.UUCP> <101354@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6967@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <6522@dayton.UUCP> <8690@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <6526@dayton.UUCP>
Reply-To: grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <6526@dayton.UUCP> joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
>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...

One problem with this is that the site that does this could be swamped, not
to mention that someone has to then pay $$$ for you to get your software. FTP
doesn't cost on a per usage basis, so it doesn't cost these people (aside
from the hard disk space/etc) any more. 

The above comment aside, there is such a service. It is in the alphatest
stage, and I'm not sure if the guy setting it up wants to announce it yet,
so I'll send him mail asking if it's OK to mention in public. 

	fred
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