> Part of the fun of operating something like a forum or an IRC server is the interaction with your users. And responsibility, a requirement to keep the softwa

> Part of the fun of operating something like a forum or an IRC server is the interaction with your users. And responsibility, a requirement to keep the software up to date, and an increased attack surface. > In BT there's none of that. Not anymore I suppose because it used to be mandatory to stay on good terms with channel and server ops. > Also, FTP servers? Are there public FTP server people operate? Why? To save costs. You'd think an ISP in for example The Netherlands who host a mirror of (legal) .iso or .deb is doing this for fun but in reality they're saving themselves costs because customers don't have to download from further away (where they got less bandwidth and less good peering agreements than their local server).