Re: FTP sites

[drechsau@winternet.com (Mike Horwath)]

Rolf Braun (rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: Rolf Braun (rbraun@Hopper.ITC.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: : It's not really needed and some sites don't require it. But it does
: : provide a way of tracking those who upload pirated software, as well
: : as the hostname taken from the TCP/IP records.

: Oh, and I just thought of another reason. If they find out that
: downloads are botched up or incomplete, then they know what host
: downloaded it, and so they can fix it. But again, this can be taken
: from TCP/IP records.

tcp/ip records?  Huh?

The email address is used like the other poster said, to get in touch with
someone incase of problems.

The records left are by the FTP daemon, not by the tcp/ip layer of the
networking protocol.

Before speaking out like you did, learn the facts please, we have this
same problem with you on IRC.

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Please get this damn signature fixed to less than 4 lines, it is annoying.

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