X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b28c9f1f27824f11 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-25 00:27:14 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!willis1.cis.uab.edu!samuell From: samuell@cis.uab.edu (R L Samuell) Subject: Re: Having trouble with twinbrook.cis.uab.edu Message-ID: <1994May25.063248.8806@cis.uab.edu> Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham References: Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 06:32:48 GMT Lines: 37 In article shaner@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Dan Shaner) writes: >In article , >Timmy@summer.rest wrote: >>In article , >>Don Bertino wrote: >>>When I try to ftp to this site, and login as anonymous, it asks me for a >>>password. Also when I tried guest. >>> >>>Are other people having similar problems? >>> >> >>All anonymous FTP sites do this. Enter your email address as the password, >>that is all you need. You don't even need to spell it correctly! >> > >Nope...it isn't working. That's because it is *NOT* an Anonymous FTP site! It is a Gopher/WWW site. Check the site list in the ASCII Art FAQ for access details. Check with your system administrator for information on what Gopher/WWW clients are available on your system and how to use them. If you have never used Gopher or the World-Wide Web, you are missing the state-of-the-art in Net navigation. FTP is Stone Age by comparison. In the Internet seminar I teach, we suffer through FTP and the older services in the morning and when we get to Gopher and the Web in the afternoon everyone understands why these services, as presented through their clients, are called "THE user interfaces to the Internet." I hope this helps and I'm sorry you are having trouble. . R L Samuell i g