Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Re: MONEY_FOR_BANKS offer In-Reply-To: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu's message of 16 Apr 91 18:49:57 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. References: <4971@lib.tmc.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 20:06:09 GMT In article fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes: >We've now shut off "world-writable" FTP permissions. Please reconsider. A reasonable thing to do is to have a world-writable directory separate and off on its own (like "incoming"), which is not read-permitted by anyone. Sites like e.g. atari.archive.umich.edu set up something like this to allow anonymous submissions but to avoid having their site be a vector for malicious doings or pirated software. An anonymous dark drop-box only allows you to fetch things if you know the name already. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216