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Subject: Re: Why on earth ...

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 05:34:19 02/21/03

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On February 21, 2003 at 05:33:12, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On February 20, 2003 at 15:39:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 20, 2003 at 14:02:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>... is almost everbody playing [rather meaningless?] blitz games 5m/game or even
>>>less?? With hardware 3-5 times faster than today, we shall soon see matches at
>>>1m/game. And then it will be high time for me to find a new hobby, grrrr ....
>>
>>Here are nearly 4000 games at slow time control:
>>ftp://cap.connx.com/The%20Gauntlet/contest/
>>
>>I share your dislike of blitz.  In the same way, some people will prefer a hot
>>dog and soda to steak and champaign.
>>*shrug*
>
>It would be so nice to be able to access this site.  I have tried ftp clients
>(active and passive), various browser, including IE (shudder), but all to no
>avail.
>
>Any hints?
>
>Frank

I've always been able to get it with just a command-line ftp in Linux. Once it's
open you have to switch to passive (or is it active?) mode. Then it's just like
any other ftp site for me...

Cheers

Andrew




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