Re: [ATM] [Atmadmin] no luck with FTP

[Michael Lindner <mikell@optonline.net>]

Dominic-Luc Webb wrote:
> ...how we should
> download large numbers of files...

wget, curl, and other fancier http download management programs will do 
so very nicely.

> ...the ATM list leadership
> must have reasons to have removed FTP...
> ...it is unfortunate if we have been
> left with no alternative for 12 years.

I haven't been on this list for 12 years, but in the time I have been, 
there hasn't been any FTP access. In fact, the whole file upload area 
has only been around a couple of years.

> ...there has not been a single
> breakin, or even a single attempt...

That is not true.

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Michael Lindner
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