Re: Space .GIFs

[Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <667758@f10.n209.z1>, Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com> wrote:
>> does anyone remember the ftp address where you could ftp it from?
>
>ftp? If you used ncftp, you'd never have to remember where you downloaded
>stuff from, because ncftp 'remembers' where you've been, and then lets you
>get back there from a menu. Once you've tried ncftp, ftp is a PIA.
>
>OTOH, once you've used the World Wide Web, both ftp and ncftp will both
>seem like they were developed in the 19th century.
>
>If you use the www, the following URL is NASA's home page. From there,
>you'll easily be able to find gigabyte upon gigabyte of space related
>graphics.
>
>http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html/

That still doesn't answer the original question.  (Hint: not everyone
has access to W3.  Hint2: not everyone wants to bother with the
considerable overhead of using a W3 client to snarf files when FTP is
so much more efficient.)

> >Ack, I hate to take up bandwidth
>
>Flames take up much more bandwidth.

Non-answers take even more.  (That W3 page no doubt points to some FTP
sites; perhaps you could list some of those sites.)

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