Since a publicly accessible incoming dir on ftp.suse.com would quickly fill with warez and porn, perhaps interested members of this mailing list could contact someone at SuSE about getting limited access passwords when they would like to post something to the ftp. I don't know how difficult it would be to set up, but I send Bodo, Hubert, or whoever a request for access to upload, they email me a password, and within 24 hours my access expires. That way the people at SuSE know who has access at any given time, and if someone does abuse the privilege it would be known who it was, their access would only be temporary so the damage would be neglible, and then they could be blacklisted from ftp access. I don't know if that is feasible, but it's one way it could be handled. James Gray wrote:
Greetings!
Thanks for all of your input. We have been discussing this idea internally over the past few weeks. The only problem is that we've been burned in the past with "incoming" stuff on our ftp site. Not-so-nice folks have used it to distribute porn pix and such.
While we deliberate you can gladly send contributions directly to Bodo at:
bb@suse.com
Thanks to all of your for your interest and ideas!
Sincerely,
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