naiman-jeffrey@CS.YALE.EDU (Jeffrey Naiman) (01/22/90)
The subject line says it all. Many people cannot ftp and do not subscribe to bulletin boards. Even people who do FTP cannot search through the loads of material at an archive like info-mac. If the binaries posting is untolerably slow, then send programs to both places. Or put a note in comp.sys.mac with the 'header' to your binary and a catching subject line (XXX posted to info-mac) so that those who can ftp will know whether they should bother. - Jeff Naiman (naiman@yale.edu)
wlipa@oracle.oracle.com (William Lipa) (01/25/90)
In article <12303@cs.yale.edu> naiman-jeffrey@CS.YALE.EDU (Jeffrey Naiman) writes: >The subject line says it all. Many people cannot ftp and do not subscribe >to bulletin boards. Even people who do FTP cannot search through the loads >of material at an archive like info-mac. If the binaries posting is untolerably >slow, then send programs to both places. Actually, all of the material stored in the Info-Mac archives at sumex is available through a mailserver for those on Bitnet or who otherwise cannot use FTP. As a result, everyone who can send Internet mail can (theoretically) access the archive. As far as searching though the vast number of files, all I can offer you are the listing of recent files (/help/recent-files.txt), the listing of all files (/help/all-files.txt), and the abstract files which contain the text headers for every file in a given directory. Bill Lipa Info-Mac