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Re: I-D (Re: Out of date contact information )

  • From: Matt Zimmerman
  • Date: Fri May 03 20:56:49 1996

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.
// [email protected]                                       [email protected]
// (703) 524-4800 [voice]    (703) 524-4802 [data]    (703) 534-5033 [fax]

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