WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Frank J. Wancho) (08/13/86)
It now appears that the "best" solution to the problem of non-Internet access to the files in the SIMTEL20 archives is to develop a program that will take specifically formatted mail requests for files, ARC and uuencode the file, and send the result back to the requestor if the file is under a certain ceiling. The alternate suggestion of a "net.sources.cpm" could still be independently persued, but only one address per site. The pieces of the mail server technique are falling together. I currently have a TOPS-20 version of ARC about 95% complete. A TOPS-20 version of uuencode will be revisited shortly. The server to envelope these pieces appears to be "easy" (famous last words). Let me see what can be done, and I'll report back to you all when I come up for air... --Frank -------