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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Tranquillity
- Message-ID: <oshmpc4@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 04:48:50 GMT
- References: <2564@news.cerf.net>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 23
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- In article <2564@news.cerf.net>, billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski) writes:
- > ...
- > On sgi.com in the pub directory you'll find tq.tar.Z
-
- Some people are offended by third parties using their systems as FTP
- repositories. There are some really hard feelings at some places about people
- who use publically writable FTP directories to maintain archives of
- stuff they can't keep on their own systems, often pictures.
-
- Sgi.com automatically and regularly removes stray stuff from its
- ~ftp/pub, so that file won't be there long.
-
- I am sure no unfriendly intent was involved and I hope no one is deeply
- offended, but it would be better to put such things on one's own
- machine in the future. At least first check with postmaster or root at
- the third party.
-
- It would be unfortunately and inconvenient for all of us if ~ftp/pub on
- sgi.com had to stop being writable by people outside the SGI corporate
- network.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-