Re: BITFTP grief!

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From: James P. H. Fuller
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 22:43

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schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall) writes:

> Most service providers are interesting in guaranteeing a level of service
> reliability every hour of every day of the year, across all of their
> customers.  No one every succeeds, but that is the goal, if you get
> 95%+ you survive, if you get 99.9%+ you thrive.
>
> Mailing files is one of those things that doesn't work very reliably,
> due to many factors from error correction, to memory utilization, to
> installed base of mailer constraits, to resource constraints, etc.
> I've seen this debate for a decade, and I'm sure it continue forever.
>
>To transfer files we use a tried and true mechanism:  FTP.

      Can you say "0% reliability?"  FTP to uucp-only sites doesn't work
AT ALL.  What's your advice for them?  "Screw you, Jack, I've got mine?"
Harrumph!
                                                 Jim
 
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From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller)
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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 16 May 91 22:43:38 GMT
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