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I can look at the local mirror of the cica archive site on my currently logged 
machine - monu6.cc.monash.edu.au.

Because I can access it via a link from my home directory, I use a
directory traversal program (written using curses) to examine the various
ZIP/ARC/LHA/ZOO files.

This allows me to examine the README files inside and determine if the files 
are really what I want BEFORE I download the lot.  It seems to me that NFS 
mounts on archie.au would allow this kind of access throughout the net.

If these mounts already exist, can anyone enlighten me?  If not, what do the
archivers think about this?  Are there problems (security, NFS packets, etc).

Ok, you're bound to get the innocuous "GREP -R README *" type access, but you 
can do that through FTP as well, so....

I really appreciate the precence of archie and use the SIMTEL mirror frequently.

RON
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