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Re: Fwd: Re: Correction to Windows Supported Products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Griffith)
Tue Apr 18 17:14:45 2000
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:17:16 -0400
To: Robyn Fizz <fizz@mit.edu>, "Hunt, Jonathan M" <jmhunt@mit.edu>
From: Chris Griffith <cg@MIT.EDU>
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At 4:28 PM -0400 4/18/00, Robyn Fizz wrote:
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>I thought Kris had already sent you mail on this, but she leaves work at
>3:30pm, so probably just didn't get around to it.
>
>is-home had sent you mail in the past as follows:
>
>Sent to the swrt on 3/17
>
>Jonathan: WS_FTP is fully supported by the Helpdesk last I checked.
>
>Response: This item has been hidden because a representative from the Help
>Desk has said that it is not supported. Additionally, it is not
>secure. If there are concerns about removing this item, please
>consult the Help Desk for
>clarification.
>
>In fact, the paragraph above was a paraphrase of mail that Chris Griffith
>sent to is-home (and perhaps the swrt as well?) on 3/16
Folks,
I feel compelled to point out that Robyn's paraphrase was not
accurate. I never said that the software is "not supported". I
expressed a *personal opinion* that it *shouldn't* be supported.
Here's what I actually wrote:
>>I don't think WS_FTP should be listed as a supported
>>product. I/S
>>has no documentation on it. And speaking for myself, I'm not comfortable
>>with encouraging the use of insecure file transfer software in the MIT
>>environment. Netscape has a built-in FTP client,
>>and we already support Netscape. Plop and HostExplorer can do secure file
>>uploads. I think that's enough.
Chris
