* [TUHS] Mills' initial implementation of FTP - best citation?
@ 2024-01-22 7:41 Royce Williams
2024-01-22 12:53 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
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From: Royce Williams @ 2024-01-22 7:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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What is the best public, unambiguous, non-YouTube reference I can cite for
the late David Mills' initial FTP work?
I see that the wording on his Wikipedia page has the ambiguous phrase "had
the first implementation of FTP", which has been flagged as needing
clarification, so I intend to provide it.
In both this interview:
https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/113899/oh403dlm.pdf
... and this video recording of Mills himself giving a lecture at UDel:
https://youtu.be/08jBmCvxkv4?t=428
... it's quite clear that it's literally true - he authored, compiled,
installed, implemented, and tested the very first (and apparently second)
FTP server. But Wikipedia's guidelines discourage YouTube-only citations,
and the text in the interview seems insufficiently detailed to have
citation value.
What is the best reference I can cite?
Thanks!
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Royce
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* [TUHS] Re: Mills' initial implementation of FTP - best citation?
2024-01-22 7:41 [TUHS] Mills' initial implementation of FTP - best citation? Royce Williams
@ 2024-01-22 12:53 ` Marc Donner
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From: Marc Donner @ 2024-01-22 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Royce Williams; +Cc: TUHS
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We need a code repository for original code like this. Cue the backup
restoration.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 02:59 Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com> wrote:
> What is the best public, unambiguous, non-YouTube reference I can cite for
> the late David Mills' initial FTP work?
>
> I see that the wording on his Wikipedia page has the ambiguous phrase "had
> the first implementation of FTP", which has been flagged as needing
> clarification, so I intend to provide it.
>
> In both this interview:
>
> https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/113899/oh403dlm.pdf
>
> ... and this video recording of Mills himself giving a lecture at UDel:
>
> https://youtu.be/08jBmCvxkv4?t=428
>
> ... it's quite clear that it's literally true - he authored, compiled,
> installed, implemented, and tested the very first (and apparently second)
> FTP server. But Wikipedia's guidelines discourage YouTube-only citations,
> and the text in the interview seems insufficiently detailed to have
> citation value.
>
> What is the best reference I can cite?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Royce
>
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