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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga-Archive mail server
Summary: anonymous uucp requires I have plenty of phone lines, which I don't...
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Date: 3 May 89 05:18:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)

In article <18171@dcatla.UUCP>, mclek@dcatla (Larry E. Kollar) writes:
>I'd like to see an anonymous UUCP site carry Amiga source/binaries. 
>Tad, what about doing something like that for xanth?

I've considered it, but there are two main problems (one is solvable):

	1.  UUCP is insecure.  I can get around this with a wrapper
		that would chroot() the incoming uucp to the anonymous
		ftp area, which is relatively safe, and can reject
		bogus commands like rmail with little trouble.
		Unfortunately, this would require a lot of duplication
		of data (such as most of the UUCP lib/spool areas).
		(Meaning less space for archives.)

	2.  Lack of phone lines.  Part of xanth's (many) real purposes
		is to act as a dialup concentrator (legitimate users
		call xanth to get to other department and campus based
		machines).  I'd have a hard time explaining to these
		people that the reason they are getting busy signals
		is because people are downloading our amiga archives.

Also, we have no trailblazers attached to xanth, making the best
anyone could do 2400 bps.  For the forseeable future, I'm not going to
setup xanth for anonymous uucp.

>You've already filled up your hard disks; save someone else the trouble. 

Yeah, and if the people who actually own the disk find out... :-)

>Of course, one probably exists already, and I just missed the announcement.

A long time ago a site was going to setup an anonymous uucp area (I know
because they contacted me wanting a copy of our archives on 1/4"
cartridge), but they never sent me a tape, and I haven't heard from
them since...

On the plus side, someone has offered to write an archive-server for
me (which if you've been reading my postings I was doing).  If this
person follows through and makes it as good as I want (I'm very picky
about these things, which is why I'm not already using one of the
commonly available servers), you might see an mail-based archiver
server sooner than I expected.  Regardless, it's just a matter of time.

	...tad