[geeks] RANT (ftp)

[Michael Parson]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:50:44AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:15:21 -0400
> Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>wrote:
>
>> On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:05 AM, kevin marshall wrote:
>>
>>> What the hell happened to FTP? Half the corporate FTP sites
>>> (Apple being the latest) i go to these days no longer have files,
>>> but instead have a text file that says to get the sh*t from some
>>> damn web page. What the hell was wrong with FTP?
>>
>> Getting FTP to work properly through firewalls is a black art.
>
> I don't know... I smell another agenda at work.
>
> There are an awful lot of non-corporate firewalled ftp sites that seem
> to run really well.
>
> The likes of Apple can't make that work?

The other piece to this is that turning off ftp means one less thing to
maintain.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org