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In article <1705@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> There are enough machines out there providing anonymous UUCP access 
> to software archives that use of BITFTP from UUCP sites is no longer
> justifiable. If you want the software, you can bloody well pay your own
> phone line charges to pick it up. Maybe you didn't want that software so 
> badly after all ...

A lot of the time it's not the phone line charges (which we're likely
paying for to get to UUNET or UUPSI or whatever anyway) it's the prospect
of debugging yet another chat script.

That is to say, we bloody well already pay our own bleeding phone charges.

The real solution would be for UUNET and other sites to provide their own
remote FTP type facilities to their cusomers. I've brought this up before,
and been poohpoohed, but so far as I can tell it would solve most of these
sorts of problems. And sites could do their own choking. Why is it that
Princeton in the strange world of BITNET is the only place that thinks to
do this?

Hell, for UUNET it'd be pure profit.
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