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From: "Richard Lyon" <rlyon@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
        "Graham Jenkins" <grahamj@webnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD via Email 
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 01:30:01 +1100
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I don't recommend you try this. This can really stress your mail server in
a big way. I tried this with 386BSD from gatekeeper using an email account
at work. The whole network in the lab slowed in a rather spectacular way.
The network administrator was permanently demented over this.

Try ftp.physics.usyd.edu.au at night. Until a few months ago I use to
download from this site using a 14.4 modem via ozemail. The site has a
freebsd
mirror. Alternatively, if you want more than a few of the distributions,
order the
CDROM from Walnut Creek.


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To: Graham Jenkins <grahamj@webnet.com.au>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, 28 October 1997 11:16
Subject: Re: FreeBSD via Email


>You would be better served by buying the CDROM than using this method.
>The distribution files are split into 240k chunks and there are >50 of
>them for the bin distirbution alone.
>