I run a MUD which has alot of people from all over the world as developers. Most are not technical and do simple thing like create areas for the game etc. Explaining how to convert files from CRLF to LF only has turned out to be impossible.

When they use modern FTP clients which automatically handle ASCII mode it just works. SFTP seems to work for some users. It probably depends on the clients support for ASCII mode..

I use it almost daily in a test/configuration environment to move text conf files to Linux machines we are setting up via scripted process. The Linux hosts have ftp disabled and ssh enabled by default.