On Tuesday 15 February 2011, my mailbox was graced by a missive

 from Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr@googlemail.com> who wrote:

> > ftp.mandrivauser.de/pub/mirrors/Mageia/iso/cauldron in your ftp
> > client.
> >
> > It's a problem with our ftp. When he's getting too many anonymous
>
> connections, he's asking for login and password instead of simply saying
> "too many connections".
> Try the http link, it's working.

What http link ?