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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: FTP
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Date: 30 May 91 17:23:10 GMT
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matthew@pro-nka.cts.com (Matthew McGehrin) writes:
>gwyn@smoke.brl.mil () writes:
>>@ () writes:

>>>        Can someone explain how to get onto FTP sites and post up some
>>>numbers or whatever?

>>This is NOT a "hacker BBS"!  To get an account on some system that has
>>Internet access, you need to talk to the system's management.  (Logging
>>into a system to which you have not been granted authorization is a felony,
>>and I think posting login information falls into the same category.)

>        Hey buddy, this guy was just asking how to FTP files, there is
>nothing, i repeat nothing illegal with FTP. I dont even see how hacking has
>to do with what the post was. Anyhow all you military guys are parnoid!!

"Post up some numbers" is a euphemism of posting information on how to
obtain access to a system, usually meaning account-password combinations.
Almost always illegal.

Looking carefully, it could be that he is requesting FTP site addresses to
be posted to the net.  The way it is phrased, another interpretation could
be asking how to get into FTP sites to "post up some numbers" on them.

This now sounds more like something that should go into alt.usage.english,
and is so crossposted and Followup-To_ed.

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