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From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
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Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS
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Date: 29 May 91 04:37:24 GMT
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In article <1991May28.192453.15345@unislc.uucp>, mrc@unislc.uucp 
(Mike Cederholm) [ still working on an Internet address ] writes...

>During the last week I have been fortunate in finding a means to get to the
>internet.  I now could ftp to SUMEX to get any information/etc available....
>only one probelm..  I keep getting a "permission denied" message back from
>sumex-aim.stanford.edu when I execute:
>	ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu
> 
>	It is my understanding that I should be able to use the user "anonymous"
>	and get files from the public directories.  My login name on the machine
>	that I am comming from is mrc... is this keeping me from getting in ...
>	or What am I doing wrong here... 

Sumex is looking for a password of the form "username@hostname".
This is basically a courtesy; any password of this form will work.

In this case, "mrc@unislc.sun.com" would be a polite way of giving
a meaningful username.

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)

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