Date   : Tue, 22 Jul 1986 21:33:20 -0500
From   : treid@MITRE.ARPA
Subject: Re: Bitnet access to simtel20 archives

This will not solve your read need but may help a bit.  Treat the new
PD S/W announcements at simtel20 as your shopping list at your local
RCPM.  Ask your sysop to be looking for the new package or update.  Many
times, the RCPM may already have it.

Put a message on your local RCPM asking for those who DO have arpanet
access if they would please pick a library up off of simtel20 and upload
it to the RCPM.  All each community needs is one or two good deeders and
the software will appear.

The recent messages on uuencode and uudecode sources in Turbo Pascal also
give hope in that libraries can be transferred in the mail with only a
small penalty (33%).  Now a message asking for a good soul to send it
through the mail can be answered (though this has great possibilities
for abuse - Keith Petersen:  would you care to comment!?).

Wrose comes to worse - everything in the simtel20 archives is also
on Keith Petersen's RCPM in Royal Oak, Michigan (phone # not handy).
On Saturday or Sunday or the deep of night, a 100K download will be
only a couple of bucks.

But back to the front:  being nice to your RCPM sysop will keep him
helping you.  Remember: most sysops run their RCPMs as a hobby, many
times an expensive hobby.  They do a great service to all and rarely 
get the public appreciation that they deserve.