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Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP

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Message #23 received at 56518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 56518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:52:03 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,
>   56518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:09:20 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:58 +0200, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> said:
> 
>     Michael> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>     >>> (I note that Firefox and Chrome dropped FTP support in 2021.
>     >>> And the FSF has sunset their FTP servers.)
>     >> 
>     >> Sic transit gloria mundi!
> 
>     Michael> Yep. But we're Emacs; it will take some further decades before we
>     Michael> obsolete the whole ange-ftp.el package. Not before major Linux distros
>     Michael> ban the ftp packages from their repos.
> 
> Telnet is already hard to obtain in many distributions, ftp canʼt be
> far behind (although thereʼs always curl 🙂)

And wget.

What about ncftp, though?

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