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 Lines: 23 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 CSNET: asf@sunysb.edu