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From: LARSON@CRVAX.SRI.COM (Alan Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP
Message-ID: <630229363.780000.LARSON@CRVAX.SRI.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 07:42:43 GMT
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--> If your system allows anonymous FTP, then it should map an unknown userid
--> into the one used for anonymous FTP.  The effect of this is that users
--> who cannot spell anonymoose still get logged in as anonymous.
--> 
--> Perhaps this idea is obvious to everyone else, and they discarded it
--> for one reason or another.  It wasn't obvious to me, and I thought it
--> was a good idea.  So I hacked it into KA9Q's NOS and it's running on
--> grape.ecs.clarkson.edu.

  This has the problem that it will map errors in logins to other
accounts to anonymous.    Why should we map 'larfson' into 'anonymous'
when I mistype my name while logging in?  I will wind up with successful
status, but will not be connected to where I thought I was.

  The curmudgeon in me suggests:  Why don't we just request that people
learn to spell, or has that gone out of favor since I went to school?

	Alan
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