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On 12 Jun 89 13:18:31 GMT, mcvax!inria!laas!nastassia!ralph@uunet.uu.net
(Ralph-P. Sobek) writes:
]
]In article <21754@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> stowe@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
](Fox in Sox, Fox in Box, etc.) writes:
]|  In article <890606.08402734.007881@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET
](Z4648252) writes:
]|   >    Probably because for half the netters here, it is impossible to
]|   >either receive the files (I've requested from Canada several times
]|   >and have yet to receive a file) due to the routing (comp.sources.atari.st
]|   >is an "illegal syntax" for our system) or files that are received just
]|   >don't decode right.
]|
]|  Regardless of the problem or the size of the sources/executables,
]|  this is still an inappropriate newsgroup for such postings.  You are
]|  welcome to your opinion, however wrong it may be.
]|
]|  [lot's of blank lines deleted :-)]
]
]Well, the USENET news folks are forgetting something.  They are not
]alone out there in World Net!!  Some people subscribe to ARPA mailing
]lists, some to BITNET news/mailing servers.
]
]Both of these services are gatewayed with the corresponding
]newsgroups; just look in news.lists about mailing lists.  For the
]people on these alternate networks, this is the only means to
]communicate source/binary code.  And it is perfectly correct.  Not to
]mention the concomitant problem of finding accessible archive servers,
]etc.

I live in BITNET and I can access a number of servers.  I've used
archive-server@ssyx.ucsc.edu, atarinet and canada01.

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Marcelino Bernardo
bernardo@erevax.bitnet        (Please ignore the address above)