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Article #5400Re: Garbage showing up in my FTP areas
From: Steve Watt
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 07:59
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 07:59
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In article <KARL.90Mar11180312@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >I am getting really, seriously irritated with the children out there. >At the moment, the species of child with which I find myself at odds >is that which feels that my anonymous FTP areas are its personal >playground, and that dropping dungheaps in my backyard is its >God-given right. Had it occurred to you to make the each directory in the entire hierarchy read-only? I agree that it takes an immature .* (fill in your own regexp) for this kind of behavior, but leaving write-access available to anonymous FTP directories seems hazardous. -- Steve Watt ...!claris!wattres!steve wattres!steve@claris.com also works If you torture your data long enough, it'll eventually confess.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sgi!zok!wattres!steve From: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Garbage showing up in my FTP areas Message-ID: <441@wattres.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 90 07:59:54 GMT References: <KARL.90Mar11180312@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) Organization: Steven Watt, Consultant Lines: 16