Subj : Re: Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (010)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Jan 11 2025 23:52:11

Hi Michiel,

On 2025-01-11 22:26:46, you wrote to me:

 TK>>> If you want to announce IFT in the nodelist, you should probably
 TK>>> allow anonymous access to your ftp site for writing,

 WV>> Agreed.

 MvdV> If you do that it is a mater of time before someone floods your inbound with
 MvdV> junk and your systems crashed because of a disk full condition.

 MvdV> In the POTS age that was expensive. In the age of the internet with speeds >
 MvdV> 100 Mbps at zero cost....

So you should have some limits on the size and number of files that can be uploaded.

But without the anonymous upload option on an ftp site, having the IFT flag in the nodelist is totally useless...


Bye, Wilfred.

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