I think you meant ftp://alpa.gnu.org/
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:35 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
The first release candidate for the 4.4.1 bug-fixing release is now
available from ftp.alpha.org <http://ftp.alpha.org> in the directory
gnu/octave:
-rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 25583761 Jul 13 19:26 octave-4.4.1-rc1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 19161651 Jul 13 19:26 octave-4.4.1-rc1.tar.lz
Once they are built, I'll make Windows installer files available in
the same directory.
jwe