Warren Togami wrote: ...
Perhaps things would be better if everyone used stateless and lower overhead file transfer protocols like rsync. It doesn't have ugly port usage like FTP protocol and it saves bandwidth too.
Oh definately. Unfortunately the Windows warezers love it (and they're the ones with the messed up daemons that can't even use the right /, let alone let you specify the port range to use for passive connections), and of course it's still a very popular way to move files when authentication isn't required (anonymous FTP). Rsync has been catching on for transfers of large numbers of files where many of them may not have changed (though the most common use seems to be mirroring ftp sites, oddly enough), but anonymous FTP is here to stay for a while.
Warren
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