[clug-talk] Help me

[s. keeling]

Incoming from John Iuchi:
> 
> Dear CLUD members,

s/CLUD/CLUG/

> My name is Iuchi. I am a member of the CLUG. Please I am needing 
> asistance regarding how to upload a file.
> We have a public web page for NJCA. I wrote the text by HTML code and I 
> try to upload our
> contents but it will not work. Why could that be, since  I'm using VINE 
> Linux 3.0?
> 
> This is the website that I am trying to upload contents into, 
> http://www.njcacalgary.ca

You really shouldn't be posting stuff like that to public lists.  What
happens if some schmuck decides to upload a couple hundred copies of
their pr0n wares, filling the disk?

> Please access this next site which is,  http://www.njcacalgary.ca

I didn't try to upload anything, but it appears to work.  Note the bit
about "Entering Extended Passive Mode" (Eew!  Yuck!):

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(0) keeling /home/keeling_ ftp njcacalgary.ca
Connected to h66-244-200-141.bigpipeinc.com.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (ProFTPD) [66.244.200.141]
331 Password required for anonymous.
530 Login incorrect.
ftp: Login failed.
ftp> user njcacal
331 Password required for njcacal.
Password: 
230 User njcacal logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls 
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||4449|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rw-r--r--   1 njcacal  site9        2458 Dec 15 21:37 cjcapm.html
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> pwd
257 "/" is current directory.
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
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