On Mar 13, 2007, at 12:18 AM, Eric J Korpela wrote:
Has anyone
else noticed that ftp search services like archie seem to
have disappeared, that the content on ftp sites isn't indexed by
google very well and that large software archives seem to be
disappearing?
Try searching for old copies of fractint and they are hard to find,
even though they were everywhere as recently as 10 years ago.
What's happened to FTP?
FTP has been deprecated.
By you, perhaps. Certainly not by many others.
HTTP is a much better protocol for file transfers,
...in SOME situations, not all.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL