McGill University Operating "archie"
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 - An Internet  Archive Server Listing Service
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 Given the number of hosts being used as archive sites nowadays, there can
 be great difficulty in finding needed software in a distributed
 environment. You may know that the software that you need is out there,
 but it can sometimes be difficult to find.  The School of Computer
 Science at McGill University has one solution to the problem - "archie".
 
 Since the announcement of the dedicated-database version of archie in
 November, the popularity of the program has grown by leaps and bounds.
 From an average of about 30 logins/day in November we are now averaging
 over 500 with our all-time high coming in at 700 for a single day.
 (Our ex-boss owes us lunch for the 500+ mark :-). Archie's email
 interface averages about 40/day and anonymous ftp to quiche (for
 retrieval of the compressed site listings files in ~ftp/archie/listings)
 is over 70/day. Needless to say, quiche is a well-used system right
 about now :-)
 
 
 Getting To The Point:
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 So how do you get to use archie? If you are Internet connected, it's
 easy. Telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3 or 132.206.51.1) and
 login as user "archie". You should get a banner message and status
 report on our latest additions (there's no password, although we do log
 the sessions to provide rudimentary stats). "help" gets a list of valid
 commands. Feedback welcome and can be sent to archie-l@cs.mcgill.ca