Date   : Tue, 12 Aug 1986 19:31:33-MDT
From   : "Frank J. Wancho" <WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: Mail access to the SIMTEL20 archives

It now appears that the "best" solution to the problem of
non-Internet access to the files in the SIMTEL20 archives
is to develop a program that will take specifically formatted
mail requests for files, ARC and uuencode the file, and send
the result back to the requestor if the file is under a certain
ceiling.  The alternate suggestion of a "net.sources.cpm" could
still be independently persued, but only one address per site.

The pieces of the mail server technique are falling together.
I currently have a TOPS-20 version of ARC about 95% complete.
A TOPS-20 version of uuencode will be revisited shortly.  The
server to envelope these pieces appears to be "easy" (famous
last words).  Let me see what can be done, and I'll report
back to you all when I come up for air...

--Frank