Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The situation on apple.com Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 07:53:16 GMT References: <50204@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Mar13.230529.4948@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1423@radius.com> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 20 In-reply-to: lemke@radius.com's message of 19 Mar 91 18:47:34 GMT In article <1423@radius.com> lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes: This one is easy. Nobody said that all files had to be available via the usually ASSUMED _ANONYMOUS_ ftp. There's not really any reason why ftp couldn't have a list of logins for registered developers. That way, you Erhm... just _how_ large a passwd file (eq.) do you think is feasible ? Presently, a 10k lines passwd file, searched lineary (that's the way it is, folks) isn't my idea of fun. Especially at a high load (with 20 users already in...) There are a _lot_ of developers, worldwide... h+@nada.kth.se Jon W{tte -- "The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want them to do." -- Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer