Subj : Re: archives.thebbs.org files gone
To   : apam
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jun 09 2022 11:07 pm

  Re: Re: archives.thebbs.org files gone
  By: apam to Nightfox on Fri Jun 10 2022 03:27 pm

 ap> I was wondering this too. I think I tried ftp a while back but I think I
 ap> had trouble then as well (as opposed to downloading via ftp in the web
 ap> browser) 

 ap> I think they might have had some funky detection in there to prevent
 ap> people using ftp clients and leeching everything. 

 ap> Seems the site is on auto pilot though, so might just be useless now.

I don't think it's just leach detection (I seem to remember some restrictions on the number of simultaneous downloads in the past).  The files seem to just be gone from their FTP site now.

Nightfox
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