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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: SLIP from next.com
Keywords: PPP
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Date: 18 Feb 91 07:32:32 GMT
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In article <5255@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
>Gettable is *not* public according to recent Morris conviction.

Well I think there is a big difference between "gettable" through
security holes and something that is in the pub (remember this is
short for public) directory of an ftp server that does not require any
password. Even the most trivial password would indicate it is not
public, but no password and /pub indicate that you may get it. NeXT
should really have no problem sending a password by mail to their
Campus reps. 
Now the only thing that had me made shut up is the fact that they
removed the access to the directory later. 
But let's move on to more productive issues, e.g. is there anyone out
there that is working on PPP?

Ronald


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