MONEY_FOR_BANKS offer

Ed Vielmetti emv at ox.com
Wed Apr 17 06:06:09 AEST 1991


In article <x4kg8t_ at rpi.edu> fitz at mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:

   >We've now shut off "world-writable" FTP permissions.

   Please reconsider.

A reasonable thing to do is to have a world-writable directory
separate and off on its own (like "incoming"), which is not
read-permitted by anyone.  Sites like e.g. atari.archive.umich.edu set
up something like this to allow anonymous submissions but to avoid
having their site be a vector for malicious doings or pirated software.

An anonymous dark drop-box only allows you to fetch things if you know
the name already.

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