Date   : Tue, 22 Jul 1986 13:52:00-EST
From   : FISHER%RPICICGE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
Subject: BITNET mail follows

Date: 22 July 1986, 13:34:26 EAS
From: FISHER at RPICICGE
To:   INFO-CPM at AMSAA.ARPA

As a new-comer to this group with access only through BITNET I face the
frustration common to all non-FTP'ers:  Public domain software--you
can't get there from here.
    Maybe this is a tired question, but I'll ask anyway.  Are there any
volunteers out there in BITNET-land willing to establish branch offices
for the SIMTEL20 main repository?  It would be a major committment for
any one installation to support a complete online service, but some
distributed arrangement might be feasible.
    I, for one, am willing to offer some form of online file server
for some suitably sized subset of the respository and perhaps an
offline server (e.g. tape-based with requests processed every few
days) for the full library.  Anyone else?
    (Of course, there is the implied assumption that given the
volunteers on the BITNET side of the world there will be some way
to get a copy of the full library and the ongoing additions. :-)

JSFisher    FISHER@RPICICGE.BITNET