Chess test site ? Nasty login message !

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From: Richard Lloyd
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1993 08:59

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In article <9307011533.AA14481@rice-chex>, cracraft@ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
> 
> final (?) version now completed and article has been submitted to
> ICCA J. The test and the article may be got by anonymous FTP
> to external.NJ.NEC.COM file pub/wds/ChessTest.tar.Z.

Er, check this out:

$ ftp external.nj.nec.com
Connected to external.nj.nec.com.
220-

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At this point, I hastily disconnected ! I daren't transfer a file in case
I get prosecuted ! So what's the status with this site then ? Is is legally
OK to transfer files from it ? If it is OK, then why have such a scary login
notice - it's going to put off legitimate users too...

Richard K. Lloyd, 
Computer Science Dept.,   JANET     : rkl@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
Liverpool University,     Internet  : rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk
Merseyside, England,
Great Britain.

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