ftp archives disappearing?

[Dave McGuire]

On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Ken Seefried wrote:
>>> These protocols
>>> no longer exist on the Internet, mostly due to valid security  
>>> reasons.
>>
>>   Hmm, that's an interesting assertion:
>> apophis$ which finger
>> /bin/finger
>> apophis$ which talk
>> /bin/talk
>>   ...looks to me like they're still there.
>
> He said "exist on the Internet".  As someone who looks at such  
> things for a living, he's right for all practical purposes.

   They work just fine if they're enabled.  As someone who runs such  
things for a living, someone else's assertion that something "no  
longer exists" simply because it is no longer as common as it once  
was...well that's getting to be a bit annoying, and it's becoming  
more and more common around here.

> N.B. - "Practical purposes" means something more than "a couple of  
> cc'ers doing it for nostalgia".

   I do it to communicate with my coworkers.  Pretty much every day,  
I might add, and nostalgia has nothing to do with it.

   Man, the "blinders" are really bad around here lately.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL