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From: wlipa@oracle.oracle.com (William Lipa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ftp-ing
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.223101.8057@oracle.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 22:31:01 GMT
References: <3818@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: wlipa@oracle.com (William Lipa)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont 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?

There have indeed been changes with the ftp software at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
The password checker was originally intended to be more strict with respect
to entering your real mail address, but we found this to cause so many problems
for people that we changed it back to the way it was. Perhaps you will have
better luck now.

The main impact of the change is that anonymous ftp connections are now
limited to 25 at a time. We had been having problems with sudden bursts
of connections that ground sumex to a halt.

Bill Lipa
info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu