UUCP sites seem to have about a day of cushion. Simply send a new subscription request to rejoin. This puts ftp in binary mode so that the files are correctly transferred. If you're on an IP connection and you don't have corporate firewalls, you should be able to ftp out. If blocked, you may want to ask your Internet administrator if there is a site in your domain that you can ftp out from.
Some material here is included with the express permission of the author or publisher.
When in doubt, add enough comments of your own to qualify for fair use. Non-copyrighted material here from mailing lists, newsgroups and other public sources is assumed to be in the public domain. Jeff has rationalized filenames from BBSes. Some file names are also changed. For example, gunsall.zip from GunTalk BBS is rkba-faq.zip.