Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Time Warrior
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Jun 20 2005 11:13 am

  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Mon Jun 20 2005 07:49:00

 >  Well, being an external protocol, one would presume it's seperate and simpl
 > "talks to" the protocol to tell it "these are the files i want to upload" an
 > tells it where to place the downloaded files :-)
 > 
 > ... and you said SyncTERM didn't support external protocols. Seems to suppor
 > ONE at least :-) As far as being faster than FTP or not, I wouldn't know
 > first hand. Thats where the "i've heard" and "I haven't been following it
 > closely" comes into play :-)
 > 
 > I also was unaware that NTP had any security holes. What is / are the hole(s
 > if you don't mind me asking?

SyncTERM suppots NTP as well as it supports you using Internet Explorer for web
browsing.  That is to say that one has nothing to do with the other.  The NTP
client merely sits there and accepts any file sent to it.  This, of course, is
the security hole.

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