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In <97be0p$buu$3@news.panix.com>, snorwood@redballoon.net (Scott
Norwood) wrote:

>In article <8T9m6.4026$S25.60081@typhoon.sonic.net>,
>John Navas  <spamfilter@navasgrp.dublin.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>>In <YSXl6.1657$Tj1.1236856@nntp1.onemain.com>, "mirayge"
>><mi_rayge@notyahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Yes there are. Many people run FTP services on their machines and allow
>>>anonymous logins. They want to share programs and files. How do you find
>>>these servers? By scanning a range of IP numbers for open port 21.
>>
>>No you don't (assuming you have legitimate motives).  You look for
>>published invitations.  There are well-established mechanisms for this.
>
>Would a DNS entry for a host named "ftp" be sufficient to assume that
>a particular machine is running an ftp daemon and exists (at least in
>part) for the purpose of making various files available to the public?
>Or do you believe that the invitation would have to be more explicit
>than that (such as a Usenet post that states "check out my cool FTP
>archive" or something like that)?
>
>I'm genuinely interested in what you believe would be an appropriate
>invitation.

In my book invitation means an explicit invitation, not something
implicit or assumed.  Just because a host is named "FTP" doesn't
necessarily mean that it's a *public* FTP server.

Addresses of public FTP servers can be published by email, web pages,
and in directories, just to name a few of the ways.

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