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Re: Garbage showing up in my FTP areas

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From: Karl Kleinpaste
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 13:23
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steve@wattres.UUCP writes:
   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.

You miss the point.  People _do_ leave legitimate, valuable, useful
things in my FTP areas from time to time.  Then they usually have the
common decency to tell me so that I can do appropriate things with
them, e.g., move things to another part of the archive, update
GNU.how-to-get, create symlinks into osu-cis!~/, etc ad nauseum.  I
want it writable; but I don't want the privilege abused.

--karl
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From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: Garbage showing up in my FTP areas
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Date: 12 Mar 90 13:23:41 GMT
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