Date   : Thu, 14 Aug 1986 17:48:13 MEZ
From   : IFF095%DJUKFA11.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
Subject: NOTE from IFF095

Date: 14 August 1986, 17:10:34 MEZ
From: Joachim K. Anlauf         (02461) 614519       IFF095   at DJUKFA11
To:   INFO-CPM at AMSAA
Subject: Mail access to the SIMTEL20 archives

I am a Europian BITNET-user and I am in deed a little bit frustrated when
I hear of all the software on SIMTEL20. I only want to make one (new?) point.
If sources are distributed with a new mailing list it is still impossible
to get old, but certainly good, software from SIMTEL20. The solution with
an automatic fileserver sounds much more attractive to my ears.

Now the question arises: do we really have to develop our own software?
There are some other fileservers on the ARPA-net that also work together
with BITNET. For example:

    INFO@CSNET-SH.ARPA
You can get more informations with:
    Request:Info
    Topic: Help

and:
     NETLIB@ANL-MCS.ARPA
To receive information mail the following command to NETLIB:

Send index

These are automatic fileservers, as far as I know. Does anyone know,
whether it is possible to use their software?

Joachim