Re: BITFTP grief!

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From: Lyndon Nerenberg
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 21:02

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dennisg@kgw1.xetron.COM (Dennis Glatting) writes:

>i used  bitftp a fair amount.  one such example is retrieving
>OO papers from geneva.  i do pay for my phone line charges.  i have a
>uunet account.  (i assume there aren't any other charges involved).

>i want bitftp!

No, what you *want* is access to those files. What you are complaining
about is the removal of your current user interface to getting those
files.

Since you are a uunet subscriber, you can still have the files ftp'd
by sending an email request to ftp-request@uunet.uu.net, rather than
to bitftp@whatever. All that's changed is the syntax of your request,
something that is hardly worth bitching about.
-- 
    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
           atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca
                    Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc.ab.can.noam
        As a math athiest, I should be excused from this.   --Calvin

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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 23 May 91 21:02:05 GMT
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