*sigh* allright I'll explain:

Since almost everybody knows by now that the point (or dot) between ftp & 
src was a typo I wanted to make a joke about your unnecessary comment.

Jeroen
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From: jrg
To: Kwast, Jeroen
Cc: netbsd-help
Subject: Re: vipw done.  Now what?
Date: Thursday, January 04, 1996 17:05PM

On Thu 4 Jan, 1996, "Kwast, Jeroen" <jkt@gesasdsc.nt.getronics.nl> wrote:
>Of course, whats in a point.
>
>Anyway from there you can decide which site is the nearest to you location.

no, my point is that there's no such host as ftp.src.doc.ic.ac.uk.
(src/sunsite tends to mirror from everywhere else anyway, as it
happens).

 -- jrg.