[Boatanchors] BAMA registration

[Morris Dillingham]

Several times I have received the username/password prompt when using BAMA.
There was an anonymous userid setup that was indicated as an option.  I
chose that and I was in.  I am thinking that it was a problem with an
automatic login script that caused you to have to login manually.

         73 de KI4IUA 
         Morris   


-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kenneth D. Grimm,
K4XL
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:47 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] BAMA registration

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

>Gentlemen, 	
>	
>Why not write direct to the BAMA founder, Ken Grimm directly? If anyone can
help
>you with a problem, he certainly can. Which is 'not' to infer that many
here can
>not, as they sure can, but sometimes there is some odd quirk that Ken may
be
>aware of that others are not. Depending who is available, it is also
sometimes a
>little quicker to write direct to Ken too.		
>	
>	
>  
>
It's funny, in a way, that one of the major problems that folks have 
with BAMA is the fault of good old Microsoft Internet Explorer.  In 
addition to being one of the favorite targets of hackers, determined to 
exploit its many weaknesses, it flat out lies to BAMA users.  I switched 
to Mozilla Firefox simply because I was concerned about security with 
Internet Explorer.  I was pleasantly surprised when I connected to BAMA 
with Firefox  to download a file and had a window open up saying, "Alert 
- The maximum number of anonymous FTP users (10) are already 
connected...try back in a few minutes."  Wow!  A true statement as 
opposed to the spurious "you need to give your username and password," 
or some other completely bogus statement.

BAMA does not require an account and/or password.  Never has.  It's 
open.  It's free.  But it will only serve 10 of you at any one time.  Of 
course you can go to the mirror site which allows 50 connections.  If 
you prefer, you can go on epay and buy the material that has been taken 
off of the BAMA site by some slimebucket who is happily profiting from 
someone else's labor.  In any case, you do not need an account to 
download anything from BAMA!

73,

-- 

Ken K4XL
k4xl at arrl.net

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