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Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> writes:

> Andrew McHorney wrote:

>> I am trying to connect to the beta ftp site. I used my email address ( also
>> xemacs) and password zawinski as indicated in my mail message. I get an
>> invalid login. What do I need to do to connect to this ftp site.

> You shouldn't need to perform any special authentication to access the 
> xemacs betas. All of the relevant directories are publicly accessible
> (read and execute permissions for `other').

Now and as long as I am maintaining XEmacs.

> Just use `anonymous' as the username and an email address (anything
> with an `@' in it) as the password, as with anonymous ftp access
> generally.

You only need the magic password for uploading things.

P.S.
The move to the new physical xemacs.org site has started tonight.  The 
plan is to retain upload privileges for xemacs-beta folk, though the
access method will change.

