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>I'm looking for guides and advice on training users to use anonymous
>FTP.  I have an outline and such, and plenty of experience, so mostly

We have used gopher as a first step before getting to the dirty details
of ftp. You can use gopher first to search files of interest in ftp-servers.
If you have access to gopher, you could set up (ask your gopher maintanence 
people to set up) links. We have to links, the first to WAIS-database
that has indexed readme-files from several places:

Name=Search ftp-readme's 
Type=7
Port=70
Path=waissrc:/WAISes/byletter/F/ftpable-readmes.src
Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.edu
Numb=5

If you can not set up direct links, you will find the link
in minnesota under: 
 Other gopher and information servers - Wais-based information
  - byletter - F - ftpable readmes
Or you can telnet to think.quake.com and use wais directly (or set
up a wais client to your site and use it)

The other link we set up was to a finnish ftp-site at nic.funet.fi:

Name=Ftp nic.funet.fi archives
Type=1
Numb=6
Port=70
Path=ftp:nic.funet.fi@/pub/
Host=nic.funet.fi

Probably there are lots of other ftp-sites linked to gopher-space.
(I hope, since it sounds quite foolish to direct 20 americans
to look at a finnish ftp-site)

It is much easier to use gopher to roam in the public directories 
and look for read.me-files than to use ftp for the same purpose.
Archie is quite useless for novices IMHO, since you cannot really 
discover anything new using archie.