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From: rwmira01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Rob Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What's the problem with comp.binaries.ibm.pc ?
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Date: 15 May 89 15:05:00 GMT
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In article <10261@smoke.BRL.MIL> w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes:
>JDYARD01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Jonathan D. Yarden) writes:
[Jon Complains about the lack of c.b.i.p support lately and wants more BITNET
servers. ]
>
>This really surprises me, coming from a BITNET user who has direct
>access to at least TWO very good file servers which can get anything
>you want from Simtel20.

Keith, I hate to sound snide about this, but I only know of one, RPICICGE and
it is less that what I would call good.  There is a 64K per day limit on files
per node.  Over 1/2 of the binaries are bigger than 64K.  The last time I tried
to get a directory listing or a file it digested my message but I never got a
single message or rejection back.  I don't like the binaries being posted here
either, (because they are hard to find and sort out) but we have gotten 1 file
in comp.binaries.ibm.pc in the past month it seems.  (We got the entire uEmacs
distribution since April 20th.)

>If you need information on these servers, send email to me at the
>address below.

Please send information on the other server if you don't mind.

Rob
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