on 7/24/02 11:43 AM, Donald Wilson at marchie_at_mac.com wrote:
>
> The icons for remote and local disks look totally different. It IS drag
> and drop. And if you mounted the FTP yourself, I would hope you know
> enough to know that it's on a different server...
>
> ~Donald
>
>> I want to be absolutely clear where my
>> computer stops and the rest of the world begins. Now, make it as easy
>> as
>> drag-n-drop, perhaps... But to have something not physically on your
>> machine look just like another disk or folder... No way!
>
I was just thinking on my (admittedly rare and somewhat dated) experience w/
Windows -- the network volumes were just like additional hard drives. There
was no visible difference. And I never had to specifically mount them -- I
guess the password from starting up Windows allowed that somehow. (I'm
definitely NOT a Windows user by any stretch, so I have no idea of the what
may have been going on behind the scenes.) The possibility that one could
end up with FTP sites mounted in the same way is, to me, unnerving. It is,
conceptually, no different than using a network disk.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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