Anonymous FTP list - who archives alt.sources?

Jef Poskanzer jef at well.sf.ca.us
Fri Jul 13 07:16:37 AEST 1990


In the referenced message, peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
}Perhaps if people were more careful about their postings there would be
}a few real archives out there.

The one inactive archive I found, of compressed article files (e.g. 881.Z,
882.Z, 883.Z) would have been perfectly acceptable if there had been an
index.  And an index could be as simple as a filename - subject list.
In other words, "Wrong."
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Jef

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