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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:29:15 EST
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:37:49 EST
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Subject: Gopher and Email access to UMICH-archives implemented (from comp.sys.ma

Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:16:19 -0600
From: myke@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Michael Dautermann)
Subject: Gopher and Email access to UMICH-archives implemented
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.announce
Organization: We're from the government, ma'am
Keywords: gopher, mac, archive, shareware, publicdomain


I'm pleased to announce that you can now retrieve files from our
archives on MAC.ARCHIVES.UMICH.EDU by EMAIL and by GOPHER requests.


We have just been added to the list of Archive sites on the University of
Minnesota Gopher server.  Also, you can connect to U-Michigan's Gopher
server (port 70 of "gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu"...  check the section
"special topics").  We would actually prefer that you files this way instead
of with FTP (as Gopher is stateless and doesn't need to maintain a connection
while you are looking at directories/files).  There is no quota on the
number of files/connections via Gopher.

If you don't have AFS, Gopher or FTP access, we invite you to try out
our mail server.  To get introduced to it, just send the command "help"
(in the message text, not the subject line) to the address
"mac@mac.archive.umich.edu".  There is a quota of 5 files or 1000K per day
(files over 1000K can be retrieved by specifying "parts".. directions are
in the help file).

The #1 preferred way for you to retrieve files is via AFS, if you have
access.  If you do have access to AFS, it is highly suggested that you
make a link in your AFS home directory to our archive (which lives in
/afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive/mac), and then you can ftp/Fetch to
your machine directly (which would save our ftp machine some cpu).
If you don't have AFS access and you want to find out more about it,
read the "00doYOUhaveAFS" file on the top level of the archive.

And if you would like to be on our mailing list of recent files (this is
the same list that is posted to  COMP.SYS.MAC.DIGEST  once a week or so),
you can send me e-mail at "MAC-RECENT-REQUEST@MAC.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU".

If you have any questions... please feel free to e-mail us at
"QUESTIONS@MAC.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU".

Thanks a lot for helping us to evangelize the Mac world!

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mike@mac.archive.umich.edu = MISTER archive
Michael Dautermann - U-M Ann Arbor, Dearborn and, soon.. the world!



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