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Last week, The Crimson published an editorial, using that big ol' font that editorial folks love to use, pointing fingers at HASCS and particularly at its director Franklin M. Steen for allowing a public log file of ftp transfers to sit idly while hordes of unsuspecting, lascivious students down-loaded megabyte-fuls of pornography...
...point to be made here is clear. While a "policy on privacy" may be instructive, in practice one should assume that when using a shared computer, all bets for true privacy are off, as unintentional violations like the ftp log incident are always possible...
Netscape is available for both Macintosh and Windows by anonymous ftp at ftp.digital.com in the directory/pub/net/infosys/Netscape...
...masks the complexities of the underlying protocols, removing the need for users to know the difference between ftp, HTTP, gopher, and WAIS, for example," he says. "All the user has to know how to do is click...
...reason it has become so popular is it is the first easy to use program for finding info on the Internet," Tarr says. "All the Web really is is a pretty-looking ftp front end program." The term "ftp," which stands for file transfer protocol, is a way to access and download information that is available on the Internet. The front end program provides the graphic interface...