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Re: BITFTP grief! (UUNET email-ftp?)

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From: Tom Fitzgerald
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 23:45
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>>> Why uunet doesn't provide a service like BITFTP
>>> for DIRECTLY connected customers is beyond me.

asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) writes:
> If someone can write some software that can distinguish between
> 	customer!customer-node!user
> and
> 	customer!non-customer-node!user
> for all customers w/o us having to keep a database of interior customer
> nodes, then we will consider running it.

As a customer, I'd be delighted to have "me!user" work, and "me!anything!user"
fail.  Especially since I'd prefer it UUCP'd into my UUCP spool area,
rather than uuencoded and mailed.  Anyone inside Wang who wants it can pick
it up via ftp from wang:/usr/spool/uucppublic.

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Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs        fitz@wang.com
1-508-967-5278   Lowell MA, USA   ...!uunet!wang!fitz
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From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! (UUNET email-ftp?)
Message-ID: <b65rcm.2kh@wang.com>
Date: 28 May 91 23:45:57 GMT
References: <1991May15.042146.29800@iguana.uucp> <81678@bu.edu> <4068@island.COM> <1991May22.081251.1026@uunet.uu.net>
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