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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:53:42 -0400

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

That's not what you used. You used /METHOD@HOST:, which is not
documented to work.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Files.html