Re: FTP or ftp, mailing lists?

Lee M J McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.imperial.ac.uk> Tue, 17 November 1992 16:14 UTC

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From: Lee M J McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.imperial.ac.uk>
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In-Reply-To: Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> "Re: FTP or ftp, mailing lists?" (Nov 16, 12:19pm)
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To: Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>, iafa@cc.mcgill.ca
Subject: Re: FTP or ftp, mailing lists?
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Things are worse still, here in the UK.
        ftp     =       Internet FTP
        ftp     =       JANET NiFTP
Leads to no end of confusion as the two systems are quite different.

(NiFTP is batch and only runs over X.25 networks.)

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