Date   : Thu, 05 Nov 1987 11:16:27 EST
From   : "John S. Fisher" <FISHER@CICGE.RPI.EDU>
Subject: Bitnet file server

I regret to report that the file server in place at LISTSERV@RPICICGE.BITNET
has been swamped with more requests than it can apparently handle at this
time.  The bottleneck is the rate at which files can be transferred from
Simtel20 to my server's cache via FTP.

More than half of all requests are getting rejected after the 5 day
time-out period.  And more than three quarters of the requests are for
IBM PC software.  Since it was my intent to offer the service first and
foremost to the Info-CPM community for access to the Simtel20 CP/M archives,
the server will now accept requests for files from the CPM and SIGM
directories only.  Access to the PC-BLUE and MSDOS collections is
suspended indefinitely.  If/when there is some reliability improvements
and through-put improvements to the several internet gateways between
Simtel20 and my host, I will remove the restriction.

By the way, if anyone out there in Bitnet-land with a VM/CMS host and
an internet connection is interested in sponsoring a copy of the server,
please let me know....

Regards,
JSFisher    FISHER@RPICICGE.BITNET
            FISHER@CICGE.RPI.EDU