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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ftp-ing
Message-ID: <20053@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:11:56 GMT
References: <3818@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <3818@orbit.cts.com> mvg@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Mitchell Gossman) writes:
>I have used ftp frequently in the past, but recently, when trying an ftp
>from Sumex, I could not log in with my usual "anonymous" and passwords
>including "anonymous", "login", "guest", and my email address, plus a blank
>line. What's wrong? Are the procedures different now?
>
>Mitchell Gossman, mvg@pnet51.cts.com


SUMEX has a new policy for FTP. Only 25 anonymous logins are permitted at one 
time. The new login procedure also wants a password of your username@host. 
I think that it tries to figure out if its looks like a real mail address.

They just installed some new FTP software and are currently having problems
with it. They hope to be able to allow up to 100 user on non-primetime hours.
(pacific time) But right now 25 is the current limit. The reason for the change
they state is that their system would come to a crawl because of too many 
anonymous logins. 

If I can find the digest posting again and if people want to see it I will post
it.


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