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Article #3447Re: ftp - email gateways
From: Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 17:22
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 17:22
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larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >Princeton has closed the bitnet ftp<>email gateway which allowed >ftp access via email - mailing back the files uuencoded -- ftp->email gateways are as big a travesty as email archive servers. Until the servers can be educated about high-cost links and local policies of the sites their sendings traverse, both should be severely curtailed if not eliminated. One site lost their MX connection from UIUC because of archive server traffic. /pbp -- Paul Pomes, Computing Services Office University of Illinois - Urbana
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!paul From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: ftp - email gateways Message-ID: <1991May16.172239.15941@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 May 91 17:22:39 GMT References: <1991May16.133047.5195@nstar.rn.com> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: Paul-Pomes@uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 15