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Subject: Re: MONEY_FOR_BANKS offer
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From: dct@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Date: 16 Apr 91 22:42:37 GMT
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fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
> that I write:
>> that he writes:
>>< 
>>< For anyone who is interested, on April 8, someone placed a commercial
>>< announcement for a "credit card indemnification club" in world writable
>>< anonymous ftp directories from here to Finland.
> 
>>We've now shut off "world-writable" FTP permissions.
> 
> Please reconsider...  <a case not to shut off write permissions follows>

Our archive is currently quite restricted in its scope.  Its only purpose 
(currently) is to facilitate distribution of our half-dozen-or-so 
home-grown statistical software packages, and we've never had reason or 
cause to use the archive for two-way data exchange.

But you make a good case, and it's not that big a problem, so I'll re-open 
write permissions... partially.

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David C. Tuttle                             dct@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Software Systems Specialist               Department of Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         Houston, Texas