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jbciii@world.std.com Joel Bostwick Couch III
>From fetrow@biostat.washington.edu Tue Feb 28 21:01:49 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 15:15:12 PST
From: Dave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
To: Joel B Couch <jbciii@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: zoomer ftp puts
>
> I was in contact with Steve Mann of
> the PDA Developers newsletter. I
> had suggested that he could 'put'
> some zoomer related items in your
> lovely archive there, but he gave
> up when he said the archive was
> "read only".
I can arrange for an ftp dump account if he likes, or
for you if this will come up a lot.
It is stunningly unwise to let just anyone dump
anything into an archive. Within a week you get a
rather extensive pornography selection! I am not kidding;
there are programs that do nothing but scan for writeable
directories at ftp sites. Within a month you get a large
collection of ripped-off programs. Within a season you
get an extensive bunch of flame-mail for not realizing
this.
Then it gets unpleasant....
> What is the proper procedure for
> submission? I read the READMEs in
> the archive, but I didn't notice
> anything relevant. Thanks.
You know, there hasn't been. You can email me the stuff
I look it over and it gets put in.
I can handle MIME (e.g. pine) encoded and uunecoded binaries
and almost any packing scheme you care to name including Mac
StuffIt.
---Dave Fetrow fetrow@biostat.washington.edu http://www.biostat.washington.edu/biostat/staff/fetrow.html