Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Wed, 25 November 2020 21:57 UTC

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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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John Levine writes:

> I don't care what OS you're running, but I do observe that rsync has
> been widely available for well over 20 years. Anything too old to run
> rsync strikes me as a corner case of a corner case.

As I said, ad hominem arguments.

--lyndon