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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 23:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Irving Wiswall <irvw@LINFIELD.EDU>

Regarding keeping impact of ftp to a minimum:  In addition to suggestions
already made, don't forget that the size of the file is the biggest factor
in the impact of the transfer on a site.  Especially with beginning
sessions there's no need to get binary files.  Get small text files like
READMEs and the resource drain will be minimal.

-Irv Wiswall  irvw@linfield.edu


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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 01:47:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Genny Engel <gen@magnum.ucop.edu>

> > But I do also have one specific problem.  I'll be in a room with 20
> > users at 20 machines.  If everyone tries to FTP to the same place, we'll
> > have problems.  How have trainers dealt with this?  Every approach I
> .
> to handle the above-mentioned problems.  Do you net-trainers just
> still teach your workshops during the day?  Does anyone know of a site
> that doesn't mind if network users FTP during the middle of the day?

I don't have all the time zones memorized, but I'd bet you could find
several appropriate FTP sites in Australia, New Zealand, etc. that would
be off THEIR prime time hours during YOUR prime time hours.  Another approach
is to have each trainee FTP to a different site and get the README file,
which is generally about the shortest file at the site.

Genny Engel
gen@magnum.ucop.edu