lordbah@bisco.kodak.COM (Lord Bah) (01/16/91)
Mr. Xanth writes: > > One of the better kept secrets on the net appears to be the ability of > _anyone_ who can use email to retrieve stuff from FTP sites. > > Princeton University Computer Center runs a pro bono email<->ftp server. And once again I must correct someone to say that this is not the case. It is probably true for 99% of email-capable sites, but as of my last investigation (about 1 month ago) BITFTP does not support a PATH command which would allow the sender to tell it how to send mail back. It seems that some sites mangle outgoing email to read "From: nobody@site.org", and BITFTP only uses the From: line to determine how to return files. On a related note, I've heard noises about an email archive server at uunet, as well as something called AlterNET (run by uunet?), but I don't know where to look for more details. Any help? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Van Epps amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.com lordbah@cup.portal.com sun!portal!cup.portal.com!lordbah
tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) (01/21/91)
In article <9101161845.AA15497@bisco.kodak.COM> amusing!lordbah@bisco.kodak.COM (Lord Bah) writes: > > Princeton University Computer Center runs a pro bono email<->ftp server. > > And once again I must correct someone to say that this is not the case. > It is probably true for 99% of email-capable sites, but as of my last > investigation (about 1 month ago) BITFTP does not support a PATH command > which would allow the sender to tell it how to send mail back. It seems > that some sites mangle outgoing email to read "From: nobody@site.org", > and BITFTP only uses the From: line to determine how to return files. While the implementation of a PATH command would be nice for other reasons, it is not a substitute for fixing broken mailers. If someone's mailer generates an incorrect From: line, well, the mailer is broken... > On a related note, I've heard noises about an email archive server at > uunet, as well as something called AlterNET (run by uunet?), but I don't > know where to look for more details. Any help? More information on these services is available by sending mail to <uunet-request@uunet.uu.net>. This is NOT an archive server, but a real person, so please use English... ...tad