Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!linus!philabs!sbcs!asf
From: asf@sbcs (Alan S. Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Accessing SIMTEL20
Summary: Username Password
Message-ID: <896@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 23:16:30 GMT
References: <19@ritcv.UUCP>
Reply-To: asf@sbcs.UUCP (Alan S. Fink)
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <19@ritcv.UUCP> kfk9673@ritcv.UUCP (Karl Kingston) writes:
>I found out that you can't access SIMTEL20 from UUCP and BITNET.  The
>reasons which I got stated that there was too much congestion on the
>networks so they shut the thing down.  It can be accessed by FTP though.
>
>Thanks to all you people out there who responded to my original inquiry.
>
>Thanks... Karl
>

While we're on the subject... much to my delight, I am finally able to
connect to SIMTEL20 via ftp.  Now the problem:  What is the proper user
name and password to actually get onto the system?  Simply connecting
doesn't do me a whole lot of good!   Sigh....

Thanks is advance,
Alan

-- 
Alan S. Fink
UUCP:  {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax}!sbcs!asf
ARPA:  asf%sunysb.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA
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