Re: telnetting to ftp sites

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Jason Jeffries (JJeffries@psu.edu) wrote:
: In article <4ce83k$r4q@news.ysu.edu>
: be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz) writes:

: > 
: > When I telnet to a ftp site, what login ID and pssword is required?
: > anonymous
: > and email wouldnt do.

: Why would you telnet to an FTP site? FTP to an ftp site, and use
: 'anonymous' and 'yourname@address'...

It's a way some sites support to get around the anon ftp concurrent user 
limit. It could come in handy some of the time. 
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool