I understood from a mail message a few months ago that the password restriction
on the FTP server was there to allow people from behind firewalls to have access
to the server, apparantly there had been problems with people accessing the 
server annonymously from behind fierwalls, but they could connect and u/l and 
d/l when logging in as 'normal' ie with a password and login name. 

Don't take this a gospel, it was a few months ago and I havn't got access to 
those mail messages any more (suppose I could try as I've got the data files).


On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:57:05 -0800, Jon A. Cruz <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:
>Ken wrote:
>
>> Ron Parker wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:05:49 -0800, Ken wrote:
>> >
>> > >I see no conflict here.
>> >
>> > No conflict between "publicly available" and "available only to IMP
>> > members"?  I'm not sure I concur.
>>
>> I guess it's time to ask Chris Cason for a clarification then...
>
>The restriction is just a technical glitch. The intent is to keep that page
>open, just on and off the server has been getting problems and resetting
>the protections.
>
>If it does persist, the IMP one will probably get mirrored elsewhere.
>
>--
>"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
>But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
>
>
>


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