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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:41:38 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Handbook: Installation 
Message-ID:  <19990309064221.JDKV682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <62194.920961354@zippy.cdrom.com>
References:  Your message of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:12:20 PST."             <3.0.5.32.19990308141220.00a5a310@mail> 

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On 8 Mar 99, at 22:35, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Yes!  All the versions I've used (2.2.2 to 3.0) before 3.1 had a direct
> > link to the floppy image(s).  What happened??  As someone who only recently
> > got very in touch with the FreeBSD scene, I can attest that newbies are
> > going to be completely confused by this.
> 
> Wow, nobody knows how to even browse an FTP site anymore?  This is a
> sad world indeed if web browsers have become not only popular, but the
> only interface people even understand now. :-(

A few years back, a wise man (I think it was Josh Bailey) said to me:

use a news reader for news, a mail reader for mail, an ftp client for ftp, 
and a browser for browsing.  For the record, I use Agent, Pegasus, 
CuteFTP, and Netscape.  But I have been known to use Netscape for some ftp 
sites.


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Dan Langille
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