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From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
Subject: Re: is ftp.gmd.de dead?/Plundered Hearts
Message-ID: <blasius.35.2CF3BEBA@gmd.de>
Keywords: ftp.gmd.de, interactive, plundered
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 20:06:18 GMT
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In article <2crnd2$l2@sequoia.itd.uts.EDU.AU>
   pejohnso@uts.EDU.AU (-s93074627-p.johnson-com-400-) writes:
>Date: 23 Nov 1993 01:01:22 GMT
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^

>        I've just tried to ftp to ftp.gmd.de to get at the interactive
>fiction archive, for the solution to Plundered Hearts (I'm really near the
>end, but can't work out how to drug Lafond).
>        Unfortunately, the connection times out before contact is made - is
>ftp.gmd.de no longer in use, or does it have particular hours these days?

They sometimes don't accept ftp requests around that time (see above, 
middle of the local night) because of administrative work. I'm trying to 
convince them that this isn't necessary; maybe I'll succeed some time. :-)

Volker


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Volker Blasius, GMD-I8.iT  <Volker.Blasius@gmd.de>
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung
(National Research Centre for Informatics and Information Technology)
