Subject: bug#15058: 24.3; ftp is still broken

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:45:10 +0300

> From: Devon Sean McCullough <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 21:03:40 +0800
> 
> Really?  When was /HOST: syntax deprecated?

It wasn't.

Actually, I take back what I wrote earlier: your original example
works fine for me, even without the explicit "ftp:".

Maybe it's a Darwin thing or something specific to your system setup.