Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!sie From: sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Sie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: AB20???????????? Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 13:45:56 GMT References: <819@ra.MsState.Edu> <3!WC+5B@irie.ais.org> Sender: news@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (News with an UZI) Organization: Fulcrum Communications Ltd., Birmingham, England Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: cython@ais.org's message of 2 Jun 91 18: 04:39 GMT >>>>> On 2 Jun 91 18:04:39 GMT, cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin) said: Tim> In article <819@ra.MsState.Edu> jy1@ra.MsState.Edu (Yo Man) writes: > > >I have seen so many hackers mention about ab20.larc.nasa.gov. I telnet to it >and it asked for user id and password which I dont have. From the articles >posted in USENET, it seems anybody can login to it. So I got a problem here, >right? Please help. Do I really need a password or is there any other way >to login to it? > >JS Tim> Anyone can use it, but you need to FTP there, not Telnet. Then when it ask Tim> for a user id: type anomymous then when prompted for password type guest Well not quite, I used to get a lot of files from there via mail and bitnet. But that doesn't work anymore. Does ab20.larc.nasa.gov have its own mail server ? Are there any other mail servers other than BITNET which seems to need you to be authorised to use it. Very poor, Very poor indeed, in bad spirit that. -- Simon J Raybould (sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk) // {o.o} "Only joking ... Or am I ?" - Vic Reeves \X/AMIGA \-/ =========================================================================== Fulcrum communications L.T.D., Fordrough Lane, Birmingham, B9 5LD, ENGLAND.