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Re: getting gnats
- To: raym at nortelnetworks dot com
- Subject: Re: getting gnats
- From: Jason Molenda <jason-s at molenda dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:23:06 -0800
- Cc: gnats-devel at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Jim Kingdon <kingdon at redhat dot com>
Raymond Marshall wrote:
> If gnats is under the GPL, why can I get to its FTP site without an
> account and password?
It is not.
You are probably using Internet Explorer, maybe version five. It
misinterprets the message "Maximum number of anonftp users reached,
here is a list of mirrors" and instead prompts you to enter a
password/login name without any hint as to what the problem was.
I'd fix this if it was fixable, but it isn't. IE is a decent
browser (better than the competition, anyway) but it really loses
here and there isn't much that can be done from our side.
Jason