RE: OT: FTP Servers

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr wrote:

> Slightly off topic from this (which is already quite clearly off topic,
> and I am making an attempt to drag it back towards firewall-wizards), I'd
> be curious to know what steps the average member of the list takes to
> evaluate any given piece of hardware or software.

For software, I use history of the package, history of the author/company, 
feature set, code size, code quality, and peer feedback to narrow down to 
"what I sould test."

"Peer feedback" (other than the opportunity to once again flog the dead 
horse) was the reason for allowing this through- getting a sanity check on 
"What *would* I use if I *had* to do that?" from time to time is a good 
thing.  That's not to say it's a good thing to do often.  

Obviously, there are still people who think WU FTPD is a good thing, and 
that should be fixed.

Paul
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