Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Deuce
From : Time Warrior
Date : Tue Jun 21 2005 07:39 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Deuce
  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Mon Jun 20 2005 05:17 pm

 > To: Time Warrior
 > 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 si
 >  > "talks to" the protocol to tell it "these are the files i want to upload"
 >  > tells it where to place the downloaded files :-)

 >  > ... and you said SyncTERM didn't support external protocols. Seems to sup
 >  > 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 hol
 >  > if you don't mind me asking?

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

Ah, the lack of authentication. No way of saying "Only this BBS Software or 
that BBS Software has access to do this" ... any tom, dick or harry can 
upload / download anything to / from anywhere.

I get it.

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