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 Lines: 30 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