On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:17:05 -0600, Lookout <Alayanke@Yahoo.com>
wrote:


What's the problem?

If the audience is not capable of understanding FTP than you shouldn't
force them to use an FTP client. If it's only downloads then have
them use a web browser. The onus is on you to make a user friendly
interface if they are clueless, otherwise they should be able to
configure FTP transfers.




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-Graham

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Lookout wrote:

Not only did you not make your question clear, you didn't even put a
question down here in the body where it belongs.

People post to try to tell you how to ask a question. When you learn
how to ask a question, they won't have to keep giving you instructions.

--
Mike Easter

Lookout wrote:

Perhaps he was trying to get you to ask the right question?

In any case, a few seconds at Google produced this page, which does
answer your question, or at least what you typed in the subject line,
which itself has little to do with the body of your post:

<http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/beginner_no8.htm>

Only you can decide, because only you know the clue-rating of your yahoo
friends, and whether you think they are smart enough to install and
configure an FTP client.

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=basic+understanding+of+FTP>
Results 1 - 10 of about 990,000 for basic understanding of FTP. (0.78
seconds)

Tell them to get FileZilla.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla>

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:41:26 -0600, Lookout <Alayanke@Yahoo.com>
wrote:

I can answer the question, but most likely the answer will be in terms
inexperienced users are not willing to try and comprehend.

Answer the question I posed to you.

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-Graham

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Lookout "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little
worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a
cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a
revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

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You recalcitrant deposit of fetid whale vomit.

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:41:26 -0600, Lookout wrote:

You question is vague.

Also note as you looked and are asking for further help you couldn't
answer it either, but you still posted.

Me

Lookout wrote:

FileZilla has a good help section, documention. It has a quick 'simple'
1 2 3 4 guide and separate in depth for the complexities, because it is
very configurable.

There are lots and lots of sites with tutorials for WS_FTP and Cute FTP.


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Mike Easter

Lookout wrote:

Heh, I just pasted the pertinent words in your subject line into the
Goog. What's the term? Viola? Saxophone? [1]

Sounds appropriate. Let them judge their own clue-level.

There's also an extension for Firefox that does FTP, but I don't use it.
However, suggesting FileZilla, or Firefox with extensions, or with
logons and passwords, is still going to be beyond the clue threshold for
80-90% of the average home users.

Why don't you just post your files at your web spaces and give them a
plain old ordinary link to the file? Someone who hasn't had a clue yet
in this century should be able to figure it out.

http://lookout-example.com/images/foo.jpg
http://lookout-example.com/video/bar.wmv
http://lookout-example.com/music/baz.mp3

[1. or as one of my clueless friends writes: Waalaa!]

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:35:49 -0600, Lookout <Alayanke@Yahoo.com>
wrote:



Let's make this clear.

Since you can't even define the problem properly, and I tried to pry
more information in order to help -- I'm the one with an attitude
problem??? My comment about inexperienced users was directed at your
users, not you. But if the shoe fits.....

If you don't like the answer that was given or the answer was not what
you expected you have choices.

1. You can expound on the original post to make the question more
precise.

2. You can ignore the reply.

3. You can be a complete ass and forever give up any hope of advice
from the respondent ever again.






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-Graham

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G. Morgan "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

I agree with this poast!


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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:57:45 -0600, Lookout wrote:

<snip>

It was you didn't say if it was

FTP clients, using.

FTP server, setup.

FTP how it works, which is most like the subject line. However I don't
think you intended to mean an actual basic understanding of FTP (how it
works) as I doubt you would read the RFC's such as

RFC 959 (rfc959) - File Transfer ProtocolFile Transfer Protocol.

posted earlier.

Me