>On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 12:10:47 -0700 
> "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> wrote:
>
> > Seems silly to call the program "ftp" then.
>
>Well, seems silly to implement an ftp replacement, and also ship an ftp.

Not so silly.  HTTP (assuming you do it correctly) is much more complicated
than ftp so I see it as less of a case of featuritis to add ftp support
to something that aready needs to do HTTP well.  Although FreeBSD ships
NetBSD's ftp, we still use fetch as it's HTTP support is much more complete.

--
Justin