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Re: The yearly FTP rant (Was: Re: Passive FTP and NAT/PAT with PIX and Serv-U)


From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:59:25 -0500

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:30:28AM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
...
It would be a fine sign of progress if vendors stopped shipping FTP
and replaced it with scp/ssh. Someone ought to write a version of scp
that has exactly the same interface as FTP (but none of the network
protocol) and then we could invisibly swap it out and have done with
this most horrible bodge of a protocol...
...

Fine for us command line apes.

And then how would you eliminate all those Losedoze FTP apps?

;-)

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () center osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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