Re: relay

From: Juergen Nieveler (juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de)
Date: 02/18/03 

From: Juergen Nieveler <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de>
Date: 18 Feb 2003 19:05:26 GMT

colonel_flagg@NOSOUPFORJ00internetwarzone.org (Colonel Sam Flagg,
U.S. Army Intelligence (ret)) wrote:

> semantics.
>
> a web server is _any_ server put on the Internet, whether it's SMTP,
> FTP, HTTP, HTTPS.. it doesn't matter. All are vulnerable to exploits,
> all are connected to the Internet.

To ANY professional, a Webserver is a HTTP-Server. A SMTP-server is a
mailserver, a NNTP-Server is a newsserver, a NTP-server is a
timeserver, and a FTP-server is something to be avoided if possible.

It might seem like nitpicking to you, but professionals want to be
precise about things - it safes us from a lot of confusion. Besides,
mailservers have been around LONG before the "web" was even
invented... 

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