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- From: lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 19:48:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.144428.13598@news.ysu.edu> <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.144428.13598@news.ysu.edu> doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes:
- >>It appears that a new vanity server, patriot.mit.edu, has just popped up.
- >>
- >>The server-op (as listed by /admin) was sending annoying msgs to an
- >>acquaintance of mine, and when he objected, he was /kill'd.
- >>
- >>Who the hell gives these guys C/N lines ?
- >
- >Greg McMullan, among others. Aren't vanity servers fun? Especially the
- >ones brought to us by Gwydion and Belladona.
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-
- patriot.mit.edu is not a vanity server. If you look at how slow
- irc.mit.edu is (as well as csd.bu.edu) you will understand why it is
- needed.
-
- NOW, I do disagree with some ops on that server, but it does not make
- it vanity....
-
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