While rebuilding a number of packages today, I ran into a problem where the
rebuild failed because it couldn't log into our anonymous ftp server.  It
turned out that there were too many ftp users at the time.  While I was
tracking this down (and nuking a bunch of cracker types who were attempting
to find misconfigured servers to exploit :-), I noticed that the
``rpm --rebuild ftp://...'' processes were leaving zombie sessions open.  A
bit more log parsing showed that after the RETR command, the next command
is ABOR, not QUIT as I would expect.

Bill
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Democracy, n.:
        A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression.  Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
                -- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
                   since withdrawn.
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