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From: Joy Fisher <>
Subject: Re: [ARCHIVES-L] Web TV users cannot open FTP links
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:55:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <030501bfe953$b5d425c0$d70217d1@mlmroots>


At 11:12 PM 7/8/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>We've been using the FTP links in the NH archives on the web pages to get to
>the files we've transcribed. I had a user state that on Web TV they can't
>open the ftp links, but he could get to the files by changing it each time
>to http.
>
>Has anyone else run across this problem?

Yes

>Should we be using HTTP instead of
>FTP links to get to the files?

I have been in contact with the WebTV gurus. They assure me that ftp://
should work just as well as http://
I think some of the problems occur when the WebTV circuits are overloaded.
Things work a lot better when there aren't as many people logged in.

>I had never questioned it since the links were set up that way when I
>started and I could open them with Internet Explorer. Maybe with the new
>technology we need to rethink how we're setting up the pages. Or maybe this
>user just had something set up wrong, but he did say that they could not
>download on Web TV, so it must be a limited way to use the Internet.

It is very limited. There is no upload/download capabilities. It is just a
browser with e-mail capability.


>Thanks.
>
>Michelle McKenzie
>NHGenWeb Archives Manager

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