Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!hill
From: hill@nicmad.UUCP (Ray Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xstuff
Keywords: xstuff uucp?
Message-ID: <2867@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 16:52:48 GMT
Organization: Nicolet Instruments, Biomedical Division
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Thanks to everyone for their help on uucp mail paths to xstuff. The correct
answer is:
	" ...!mit-eddie!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xstuff"

After close to a month of requesting the distribution patches from xstuff I 
finally got 1 to 33! Thanks for the patches to the people responsible for set up
the xstuff service.

Advice for others trying to use the mail service:

1.	Even though requests can batch multiple files into large mail messages,
	request all files separately. The larger the file to be mailed, the 
	lower the priority xstuff has to send it.

2.	Always wait at least week before re-mailing a request to the service.
	Xstuff has tons of stuff to send and takes a while to mail most 
	requests.

3.	Xstuff confirmation messages only mean xstuff got the request not that
	it will ever be able to mail what was requested. (see #2 above)

Does someone out there with FTP access to xstuff want to start up an anonymous
UUCP site so us X Windowing system users without FTP access can get to all the 
code announced on the net constantly? (I'd be happy to pay the phone bill to
call anywhere in the country to get the latest and greatest releases) If this
form of distribution became available xstuffs load would drop significantly.

						Ray Hill
						hill@nicmad