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Re: I-D (Re: Out of date contact information )

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Zimmerman)
Fri May 3 21:00:04 1996

Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 20:49:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>
To: Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03006612adb00c961aa5@[205.198.168.35]>

On Fri, 3 May 1996, Michael Shields wrote:

> >      ftp-admin  Customer Support     FTP administrator
> Why not just `ftp'?

Same reason that www and webmaster are often separate entities.  Since
most FTP-related software runs as 'ftp', errors, etc. are usually sent
there, whereas ftp-admin is widely used to reach the (human) FTP archive
maintainer.

// Matt Zimmerman       Chief of System Management           NetRail, Inc.
// mdz@netrail.net                                       sales@netrail.net
// (703) 524-4800 [voice]    (703) 524-4802 [data]    (703) 534-5033 [fax]


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