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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: RFC for MPUT and MGET in FTP . . .
Message-ID: <4044@phri.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 00:53:56 GMT
References: <8910071742.AA10249@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <14005@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <14005@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes:
> 	1) 3-cornered FTP (source, destination, and control points on 
> 	   different hosts) never worked.

	I'm curious as to why third-party FTP was ever invented.  It's sort
of neat, but always seemed to me to be complicated and unnecesary.  Was it
envisioned that it would be a poplular thing?
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