[microsound] ftp

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just out of curiosity Kim, why does microsound use Hotline instead of
> plain old FTP? Surely FTP is better than a proprietary protocol, no?
the nice thing about hotline is that is allows for chat and other 
little community building tools...

no-one should be using ftp anymore - unless you want to give away your 
password which is sent in plain text when logging in to a 
server...always use sftp instead...there is no sftp access to the 
hotline server...

> Is there a good linux hotline client btw?
yes, but I have forgotten the name of it...I came across it in the 
Debian repository...I think?


> A textual one ideally... I
> don't care for GtkHx and the like. Text works nicely with Ion2. The
> official Mac client is pretty atrocious too..
pitbull is nice and allows me to admin the server in a more organized 
manner...when I have the time that is...


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