Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv
From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: MONEY_FOR_BANKS offer
In-Reply-To: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu's message of 16 Apr 91 18:49:57 GMT
Message-ID: <EMV.91Apr16160603@poe.aa.ox.com>
Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator)
Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI.
References: <!vkg8.#@rpi.edu> <4971@lib.tmc.edu> <x4kg8t_@rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 20:06:09 GMT

In article <x4kg8t_@rpi.edu> fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:

   >We've now shut off "world-writable" FTP permissions.

   Please reconsider.

A reasonable thing to do is to have a world-writable directory
separate and off on its own (like "incoming"), which is not
read-permitted by anyone.  Sites like e.g. atari.archive.umich.edu set
up something like this to allow anonymous submissions but to avoid
having their site be a vector for malicious doings or pirated software.

An anonymous dark drop-box only allows you to fetch things if you know
the name already.

-- 
 Msen	Edward Vielmetti
/|---	moderator, comp.archives
	emv@msen.com

"With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks,
not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research
efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with
technical issues within the constraints of economic science."  
							RFC 1216
