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		sprocket on Sept 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ever wondered how many open FTP servers there are? It's not entirely clear to me either, though I would assume it's so that the first server in the list doesn't get constantly hammered by a hundred people going through the list sequentially.

repler on Sept 18, 2016 [–]

hmm. Yeah that makes sense.

Would be better if they simply stated that instead of playing insinuation based guessing games.

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