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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
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Date: 31 May 88 16:14:00 GMT
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    Date: Fri, 27 May 88 10:47:19 -0100
    From: mcvax!latlog!PAYNE@uunet.uu.net

    Is there any reason why packages which get added to expo do not also
    get added to the xstuff server?

Yes.  It isn't part of our job description, and our time, energy, disk
space, and CPU cycles are better directed to other tasks.  Stuff placed
in contrib/ is not placed there by us, and we feel no obligation to
actively redistribute it, except in the course of our normal releases.
Also, we get enough hate mail as it is from postmasters about use of
mail for bulk data transfer.

				     It is very frustrating for people who
    can't ftp expo to know that all these things exist but have no access to
    them.

Sorry.  (It is also frustrating for people who try to provide a service
to get requests to do even more :-)