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> Can someone please tell me who moderates comp.mac.binaries, and are
> they FTP-able?

submissions are made to macintosh@felix.uucp, but the files are not archived
there or anywhere else that I am aware off.

However, if you can FTP to rascal.ics.utexas.edu at 128.83.144.1
you should be able to find most Macintosh files recently posted or archived
at SUMEX.  I won't guarantee either service nor completeness, but there it
is .... (anonymous ftp, in sub-directory mac ..)

a collection of older files and posted articles can be found on several other
sites which should be encouraged to identify themselves.  After all,
if enough archive-sites "admit" to archiving and make their archives available
not only to local networks but for anonymous-FTP to the larger Internet-com
munity, no single site would get overly burdened by too many people retrieving
archived files.

BTW, in my experience communicating with the moderator has been exceptionally
bad, which I suspect can be partially blamed at the bizarre behavior of some
hosts through which mail seems to get routed.  In over a year, I have been
able to raise the moderator once (his mail to me may have gotten lost) and
have *NEVER* received an acknowledgement of any files I sent to him.
This has resulted in me, basically, no longer being able to make files
available to you.

Which makes me wonder, if others have had similar experiences, it might
be a good idea to try to find a moderator at a better connected site.
After all it is nothing if not fair to pass around the work-burden and the
current moderator has been supporting the Macintosh community with both
sources and binaries single-handedly for quite some time now and deserves
"relief" ...

		Cheers,		---Werner
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werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu

PS: to anticipate the question about archives at NGP:  NGP has been retired
	and the replacement site machine EMX has not restored the mac-archives
	and does have no such plans.