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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.103428.11259@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 10:34:28 GMT
- Sender: dougmc@edu.utexas.cc.ccwf
- Organization: Aston University
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- Status: R
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- Hopefully the editor wont 'nuke; this again.
- dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:
- :
- : MrBot is not a good example of a useful bot :)
- :
- : First of all, his 'email' address : asshole@192.41.205.7. I can't even
- : telnet to this host (Host is Unreachable), so I can't even finger him, but
- : if I could, I really doubt asshole is the real user-id of his owner.
- : (His owner is Hendrix, jimi@sarge.hq.Verdix.COM.)
- I was able to finger the host easily.
- The machine identifys itself as halftrack.hq.verdix.com.
- A forward lookup works (looks like sloppy DNS management here)
- sarge.hq.verdix.com does NOT have a user called jimi (or for that matter a
- sendmail alias for that name)
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