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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post zoo
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Date: 14 Aug 88 14:00:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: larryg@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU's message of 13 Aug 88 23:43:34 GMT

In article <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> larryg@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Larry Gilbert) writes:

   Joe Bob Willie writes,
   > there are archive sites which already contain these things, please
   > find a local archive.  there is no need to continiously repost zoo
   > every month or so.

   I agree.  But there are those of us who can't ftp archives.

Why not?  jacobs.cs.orst.edu is on the internet, why can't you ftp?  And,
it sounds like you don't want to bother calling the c.b.i.p archives directly.
It so happens that I don't have zoo in the archives, but I'm trying to find
out what the latest version is.  (Rahul, if you're reading this, send me
mail--my mail to you gets forwarded to /dev/null).

   Does anyone have an idea for a compromise?  Maybe post stuff like that every
   THREE months?
Nope.  If you want it, go fetch it from the archive.  The only reason to
repost anything *ever* is when nearly everyone's copy got trashed.

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