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Re: Why can't I get PGP from MIT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Sat Jan 6 15:17:46 1996

Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 12:08:42 -0800
To: post@why.net (post)
From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, hoffman@txcc.net

At 12:47 PM 1/6/96 -0600, post wrote:
>MIT won't let me get PGP or PGPhone.  I know their server
>went down awhile back but, I have tried them several times
>and sent several e-mail requests.  I thought maybe I was
>missing something obvious or maybe they are just really
>busy.  I keep being told I'm not in the U.S.

There was a posting (either on the server or somewhere else) that claimed
that the MIT site was having problems with .net and .org sites.  (As well as
a couple of others if I remember correctly.)  The posting claimed that they
had fixed the problem, but i guess not...

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