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In article <1991May18.172953.3331@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:

   >No, the answer for UUCP-only sites who can't anonymous FTP is to anonymous
   >UUCP.  There are a number of sites that provide this service; osu-cis,
   >uunet (in addition to providing the service for regular customers, they
   >have a 900 number so anyone can use the service).

   Not the same at all.  Has anyone measured the average time between when
   a posting appears in comp.archives about some program's availability
   and the time it appears in an anon-uucp site?  In most cases it's somewhere
   approaching infinity... 

I am prepared to say that MSEN will be able to ensure that as soon as
a posting appears on comp.archives, it will be available through the
MSEN archive service.  (How can I promise this?  Easy.  I run
comp.archives.)  Since no one has infinite disk storages, there may be
time lags for huge packages or for things announced a long time ago;
getting the details right of the caching and refreshing of these
packages to make sure there's not stale old stuff on disk is this
summer's work.  The key information (5000+ descriptions and locations
of software packages) have already been taken care of.

Our prices should be competetive with other internet service
providers, and I think we can do a good job.  

For more information contact info@msen.com.

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc.  emv@msen.com