Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!ra!uwasa.fi!hv From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: How to contact the system-manager of an FTP site?? Message-ID: <1990Feb7.163204.16548@uwasa.fi> Date: 7 Feb 90 16:32:04 GMT References: <13215.25ced417@max.u.washington.edu> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 24 In article austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin H. Ziegler, III) writes: >>>>>> On 6 Feb 90 21:41:43 GMT, photon@max.u.washington.edu said: > >photon> Does anyone know how to get intouch with the "ownwer"/"manager" of >photon> an FTP site? When you access an FTP site, you can only do things > > I can think of two possibilities: email root@ or email >postmaster@ and either ask for the address of the manager of the >site, or to forward the message to the manager. The latter (postmaster) is >far preferable to root, but I think either one could be done. I simply state here that on well-organized sites there is usually file(s) that are meant as information of the site. They are usually called README or something at this direction. This is what we do here in Vaasa, Finland. This is better way also because usually user named 'root' is not "running" that is maintaining ftp sites directories. And if you want to contact these people who are "responsible" of the stuff that is available they should be named somehow in these README files. -- ----------------Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi)------------- University of Vaasa, Finland anonymous ftp site (128.214.12.3) PC and Mac directories