[ale] Still using plain FTP? Why?

[Byron Jeff]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:00:13AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 01/19/2015 09:22 AM, JD wrote:
> >For folks using plain FTP still, I'd like to know why?
> >
> >We all know it isn't secure and should have been removed from offers in the
> >1990s (along with telnet).
> >
> >So, if you are still using plain FTP, why?
> >
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> Can you believe that there are still web hosting companies that only
> support ftp access?

And they have customers?!?!

> 
> Telnet is a useful debugging tool.  I won't use it for remote shell
> access, but for a quick test to see if a port is working on a remote
> system, I will.

Ditto. It's usually why I install telnet on a machine.

BAJ

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Byron A. Jeff
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