Re: Palaeontological Association Newsletters

[J.Young@xxxxxxxxx (Jeremy Young)]

>Mr., Mark Purnell,
>
>You wrote:
>>ftp.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/Newsletters
>
>I would like to download the Newsletter of the Palaeontological
>Association. But when I try to connect FTP.NHM.AC.UK, my ftp display
>me the message:  "host unknown". Didn't you wrote wrongly ftp site
>address in your previous message ?
>
>Fernando Verissimo

Try using the name mailserver.nhm.ac.uk - the name ftp.nhm.ac.uk is an
alias for this, and so may just possibly be less reliable

Another alternative which is worth trying in such cases is to use the
dotted decimal IP number rather than the name - this should cut out many
name server problems. For the NHM site the IP number is 157.140.2.2. In
most (?all) ftp programs names and IP numbers are interchangeable.

Jeremy Young, NHM

N.B.
If prompted for a user name use "anonymous"
If prompted for a password use your email address
(many ftp programs will do this for you)