On Apr 7, 2015, at 4:52 AM, Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com> wrote:
i maintain an ftp server. it is a pita. i also maintain uucp service.
i recommend neither. but i have very good reasons to run them. i am
still not getting the very good reason for the secretariat to continue
to run ftp.
Yup. I killed off ftp on my servers about four or five years ago because the
code was too old and brittle to feel trustworthy, and I didn't need it. The
idea that there is no cost to continuing to run a service that is already
working fails to take into account the issue of stale code with few friendly
eyes upon it.