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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:42:17 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7
Message-ID:  <20030702154217.A1597@barryg.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030702222213.GD55984@dds.nl>; from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl on Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:22:13AM %2B0200
References:  <20030702165503.19796.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com> <200307021718.h62HIZ1P002959@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20030702222213.GD55984@dds.nl>

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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
...
>You may replace 'anonymous' with 'ftp' and can type anything in the 
>pasword field.

Custom says to use your e-mail address as the password.  Some anonymous ftp
servers are configured to reject connections with totally bogus passwords
(e.g. mozilla, and the various defaults for Internet Exploder).

Bill
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