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- From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
- Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.173810.5754@tc.fluke.COM>
- Reply-To: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
- Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
- References: <1hd7m1INNrmv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <qt3cs*tN0@prolix.apana.org.au>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:38:10 GMT
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- dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
-
- >Anyone with FTP access just goes to a amiga.physik mirror site,
- >and gets files from there. FTPMail also works, especially to
- >mrcserv@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca. Send a mail message to that site
- >with 'HELP' as the subject, and you should get back a detailed
- >enough picture of how to use the service.
-
- As happy as those with FTP access are, there are still many with no access.
- My experience with ftp mail servers has been very bad. gatekeeper.dec.com
- may take 2 weeks to respond, and sometimes eats requests. An ncr server
- went silent years ago. Something in mrcserv's messages made me reluctant to
- strain their resources by using them extensively, though at this time I
- can't remember what it was.
-
- I was happy with comp.amiga.sources/binaries. Most of the important
- software came over the usenet, and little of the junk. It was an effective
- distribution method as far as I am concerned, and I have missed it. I
- heartily second Peter da Silva's (sp?) nomination as moderator. He'll do a
- great job, especially when compared with the current moderator, which
- appears to be the null moderator.
-