http://serverfault.com/questions/345962/alternative-for-ssh

This is an interesting question from several angles:

• someone in Iran is asking a question on ServerFault
• it asks about alternatives to ssh as a secure way to access a server
• answers to the question may help sysadmins who want to close this type of access further

Yet it is voted closed as being too localised. This is quite sad. Hopefully enough people will vote to reopen this - plenty of people voted the question up.

This sort of thing makes me feel that ServerFault is turning into Wikipedia, with some people spending more time looking for questions to close than engaging them. I've seen this sort of thing manifest itself on other forums over the years - that is why most of them are unfriendly and of limited use after a short time.

https://serverfault.com/questions/345962/alternative-for-ssh

This is an interesting question from several angles:

• someone in Iran is asking a question on ServerFault
• it asks about alternatives to ssh as a secure way to access a server
• answers to the question may help sysadmins who want to close this type of access further

Yet it is voted closed as being too localised. This is quite sad. Hopefully enough people will vote to reopen this - plenty of people voted the question up.

This sort of thing makes me feel that ServerFault is turning into Wikipedia, with some people spending more time looking for questions to close than engaging them. I've seen this sort of thing manifest itself on other forums over the years - that is why most of them are unfriendly and of limited use after a short time.