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From: gupta@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Rohit Gupta)
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Subject: Re: Why & how to join Internet community?
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Date: 29 Aug 90 05:48:12 GMT
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jes@mth.msu.edu (Jesse) writes:
>Possible answer : Use telnet/ftp.
>   While telnet/ftp is convenient, it's not so important to a
>   company unless you need to use remote computation substantially.

Another reason why a company may not prefer a TCP/IP connection is because
of security. With telnet someone could try to login to your system. With ftp
he/she could try to steal some files. In fact, some versions of telnet/ftp
(especially on PCs and Macs) make ftp'ing files from a site trivial.

Rohit

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