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By: Fred Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: William F. Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On: 20-Apr-00 09:07:24
Re: [Miami] Re: [MiamiDx] Re: MiamiDx archive names
Hi Fred,
>>>> I do think there's something somewhat less than anonymous about
>>>> using your e-mail address as a password.
>>> That's so they can come and get you if you do any dastardly deeds
>>> to their servers and/or users.
>> Oh, I understand the "why," but calling it anonymous is just
>> misleading. Certainly so to newcomers. They'd assume (reasonably),
>> that logging onto a server anonymously actually means just that.
> It's for historical reasons. The actual username "anonymous" is a
> special case for FTP, avoiding the password check. The idea of using
> the email address as the password for tracking purposes came later.
Still misleading though, it's a pity a more intelligent approach wasn't
used, such as a "guest" account. Anyway, this is a pointless debate,
we're stuck with yet another dumb implementation of something.
I'm still trying to find an answer to a question I posed about what
other combinations of username and passwords are used for anonymous
FTPing. I still manage to strike the odd one or two public FTP servers
that I can't get into, because they're expecting something different
than what I know about.
Bye,
Tim. (B.A. T.L.M.N.)
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