SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (01/24/88)
David Whitney <whitney@think.COM> writes: >Subject: Re: Posting Z-Link >Sure, as long as nobody minds a file of roughly 30k being posted. We've been through this before. You'll find that there will be LOTS of gripes about files over 8K or so. That's why Chris Chung was kind enough to talk Brown's computer center into setting aside some disk space for APPLE2-L. APPLE2-L may not be perfect, but it exists. Larry Virden's effort to get comp.binaries.apple together didn't attract enough favorable interest (sorry, but that's about the size of it). A big problem with APPLE2-L is that many USENET sites don't seem to be able to supply a valid (upper case) address that will work from bitnet (yes, I know UUCP uses lower case addresses; in order for a robot <LISTSERV> to reach sush an address, it needs to be known to a gateway <such as PSUVAX1> that will translate from upper to lower case). The problem could be dealt with if one (or more) UUCP sites would agree to redistribute APPLE2-L posts (archive would be even nicer, but redistribute doesn't require very much disk space). Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that this hasn't been done already. There already is one UUCP site redistributing to addresses at 3 or 4 other sites (in self defense, he was processing 4 copies of every post). It's not a backbone site, and I wouldn't volunteer his system for him (so he shall remain nameless lest he be bombarded with requests). --------------------- Disclaimer: My employer often is appalled by my opinions, and my facts may be only vaguely right <slippery when wet>. ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut