[Coco] Rainbow on Tape or Rainbow on Disk

[Brian Blake]

On 3/19/2012 4:27 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Monday, March 19, 2012 04:17:49 PM Brian Blake did opine:
>
>> On 3/19/2012 11:09 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>> Actually I was talking about the sqlbbs link, not yours Brian, sorry.
>>> But if yours also can't do passive mode, might be best to try and find
>>> another option.
>>>
>>> I can host anything coco related and noncommerical for free, send me a
>>> private message.
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>>    If you want to host it, feel free. Everything on my FTP is available
>> via Firefox/Google quite easily.
>>
>> Via an FTP client, it will work. You have to use the following username:
>>
>> anonymous at randomrodder.com
>>
>> ... to ftp.randomrodder.com - no password required. That allows you to
>> use a client like FileZilla.
>>
>> Sorry if I seem a little testy about this issue. But the calls to fix it
>> or remove it tend to piss me off a bit considering all I wanted to do is
>> help contribute some - if the effort isn't appreciated, I'll remove it.
>> After all, all of this IS available on RTSI or Maltedmedia. Sorry if
>> some people cannot get to the files, but, most seem to be able to find
>> them with little problem, based on the site traffic.
>>
> But Brian, this is the first time you have actually posted the password,
> which I will add, works just fine for gFTP, I am looking at the top level
> directory listing now.
>
> The normal convention is to use 'anonymous' as the username, and enter your
> email address as a password, this so that the user logging into the
> anonymous account, can be logged as his email address is then in the logs.
>
> Logging in as anonymous, then using anonymous at randomrodder.com for a pw
> won't leave the potentially malicious users email addy in the logs.  Of
> course the veracity of the person logging in cannot be actually proved in
> any event.
>
> That doesn't seem like a very good policy, no more in those logs than in my
> /var/log/httpd/access_log.
>
> Cheers, Gene

Gene,

Actually, I don't think it's the first time I've posted this. When the 
FTP went online I posted it - granted, there haven't been any updates, 
and I probably should put some configuration info on the site for those 
who use FTP software instead of browsers. This is really the first time 
it's come up that anyone with an FTP client has had an issue, and nobody 
has contacted me off-list about it.

The user id is anonymous at randomrodder.com, there is no password for 
downloading from the FTP site - uploading to the site is disabled. The 
access to the free FTP section and the naming convention for users is 
dictated by the hosting company, there's nothing I can to about that.

For the record, I pay $14.95/yr for each domain name I have registered; 
I pay $105/yr for the hosting for all of the sites I have - it's a 
shared services plan. The limitations/restrictions are there unless I 
move to the $100/mo premium hosting plan, which isn't going to happen 
due to the costs involved.

And I apologize for being snippy earlier - it's been a rough couple of 
months. There's no excuse for personal life issues to come into a hobby...