[geeks] RANT (ftp)

[kevin marshall]

True, but most of these places haven't actually turned it off,
they just don't have any real content there any more. The content
has to be managed anyway, it's just placed elsewhere.

Along similar lines: i miss gopher :)

/KRM



On Oct 24, 2006 01:06 PM, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Parson
> mparson at bl.org
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