Re: ftp-proxy headaches

[Nick <nagray@austin.rr.com>]

Richard,

         I am not that easy to rile. I find posting in line irritating, I 
don't care who does it! As for full quoting, since estimates are that 
60-80% of all Internet traffic is pornography, I really don't think my 
extra bits will make much difference.

If you had read the point of the email, you would understand that it really 
has nothing to do with reverse name files being misconfigured, but that the 
architecture has become fundamentally flawed. Whether or not programmers 
act like lemmings or not and just go with the flow, it has been my 
experience that most of them do. As a programmer myself, My favorite quote 
is "If we didn't reinvent the wheel from time to time, we would all be 
trudging along on stones instead of flying down the highway on steel belted 
radials. As for "free" stuff. I am from the generation that the Internet 
used to be a place with developers working to improve functionality and 
expand what can be done. Now it has become a very dangerous place 
of  Viruses and Kid Hackers.

The software has to grow within its bounds. Think of statement very 
carefully. I missguessed several years ago when I wrote that telnet would 
become a dead protocol as would all other unencrypted methods of 
communication across the net. Telnet serves and important function in 
real-time communication across vpn's. In this case, as I pointed out, there 
is no need for reverse name lookup. The same can be said about FTP. If this 
functionality is included within the protocol it should be an option.

I am also not afraid to place my opinions on the list since the are only 
opinions after all!

At 06:49 PM 3/7/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>At 17:26 -0600 on 07/03/2002, Nick wrote:
> > I addressed this a couple of days ago and I am dealing with the same
> > issues. So I wonder if the developers are sleeping on the job or what. The
>
>
>Having properly working in-addr.arpa. is a badge of competence.  Of course,
>a similar badge of competence is posting in-line and trimming quoted
>material, as opposed to top-posting and full-quoting.  And let's not forget
>how the competent seem to naturally avoiding gratuitously insulting people
>who give them free stuff.
>
><sigh>
>
>Into my "discourteous top-posters" filter you go.  I'll take you out if you
>at least stop top-posting.  You can be insulting all you want. :-)
>
>
>Richard

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