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lucifer@maths.uq.edu.au (David Conran) writes:

>j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au (Jason Stokes) writes:

>>In article <554ctl$j35@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, lucifer@maths.uq.edu.au (David
>>Conran) wrote:

>>: It costs money/time/effort to maintain a ftp site, and it is pretty hard
>>: to charge for it to re-coup money, you can't advertise as well as you can
>>: on www on ftp :)
>>: Love and voulenteers soon run out of steam.

>>Lots of people run ftp sites for all kinds of motivations - anti-cultists
>>run ftp sites because they want to spread the word about cults.  I don't
>>think it's likely the problem is lack of volunteers - hell, I'd volunteer
>>to run a linux ftp site if it would help.

>Be sure of what you are saying/offering before you do :)

<Lots of my own crap deleted>

>So .. read the above ... and next time you are using a real neato ftp site,
>send the admin a "thank-you" note ... Trust me .. it helps.

Thank you for the "thank-you"'s to me ... you should also send them to
jason@dstc.edu.au (he has looked after it on his own for the last 6 months
and we both did it for about a year+ before that.)

But .. what I really meant was. Send a thank-you note to your other
ftp-admins out there.
When did you last send one to sunsite.unc.edu?
                              archie.au?
                              sunsite.anu.edu.au?
                              tsx?
                              ftp.[au.]freebsd.org?
                              ftp.cdrom.com?

David
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