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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:18:13 +0930

[silly] FTP is BAD -- maybe not

Does anyone remember this comment by David Lloyd?

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2000-09/457.html

I quote:

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Re: ipfwadm commands for FTP data connections

Ftp is bad. Repeat after me: FTP IS BAD :-P

DL
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Well, this has been playing on my mind since then, and
I've been wondering whether FTP is in fact a simple
translation of BAD. But no matter what I did, I could
not find any trivial transformation to turn FTP into BAD.

But then I looked at FTP and realised what it really means:

FTP - 5 = AOK !!!

Take 5 from the ascii value of each letter of FTP, and
you get AOK. This is a simple translation/transposition code
such as was used in Elizabethan times and crypto 
beginners' books.

So someone is trying to send us a message, that FTP is AOK.

But this doesn't match my experience.

Note:
Please do not respond to this message!

Cheers,
ak.

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