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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!tsoft!hew
- From: bbs.hew@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Harold Wheaton)
- Newsgroups: ba.internet
- Subject: Re: UUNET slowness (was Netcom slowness)
- Message-ID: <Ji5XTB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 00:28:42 GMT
- References: <Bx9AEs.DDD@rahul.net>
- Sender: bbs@tsoft.sf-bay.org (BBS User)
- Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
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- dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
-
- > By the way, even though the UUNET folks have some unhappy customers,
- > the rest of us do owe them our gratitude for making so much anonymous
- > ftp stuff freely available to the Internet. I don't know of any other
- > service provider who is so generous.
-
- The ftp.uu.net is definitely top-of-the-line in FTP speed and selection.
- If I want to find something, but don't know what to do with archie, I
- go there first.
-
- I understand UU net also maintains a Usenet server and I was wondering
- if it were also publicly accessible from a Usenet client. Any of you
- know about this? Thanks.
- -Harold
-
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- Harold Wheaton (bbs.hew@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
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