I wrote yesterday

 > I've spend some time last week writing up the documentation for a first
 > footnote package and just a couple of minutes ago added it to the experimental
 > code section on the project www server
 >
 > you'll find it at ...

seems that a) i can't spell url's and b) that at least from here ftp
doesn't work; so try



 http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/xfootnote.tgz  (tar gzip)
 http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/xfootnote      (dir with
                                                            individual files)

instead

frank