On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Gary Kleppe wrote:

I suppose this means that it's 'jumping through too many hoops' to go to,
say, ftp.std.com to the anime fanfiction archive to pick up older fiction,
instead of asking 'does anyone know where I can get a copy of
<such-and-so>?'.

A quick correction here: The fanfiction archives is at
ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/pub/archive/anime-fan-works

My goof; it used to be at ftp.std.com.  Sorry for that.  I think the point
still stands, though. ;)

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