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>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:

> The Post Office Protocols were never intended to be used
> interactively.  They were designed as lightweight, "get mail from a
> mail server to a desktop PeeCee" protocols.  If you want IMAP, use
> IMAP (an IMAP backend is in development; you might want to pound on
> that).

Has there been any work done on this lately? John?

I can't do FTP to naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu, as indicated in
	<URL:http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/#Q4_13>
I get
	% ftp naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu
	ftp: connect: Connection refused
	ftp> bye
	% 


- Steinar