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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu!asamonte
- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 10:30:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.144428.13598@news.ysu.edu> <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) was telling me...
- >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.
- >
- >
- > 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.
-
- Ever noticed how many people USE csd? Gee george, how many other servers
- do you know of that have crashed because they went over the max user
- limit of ircd?
-
- >
- > NOW, I do disagree with some ops on that server, but it does not make
- > it vanity....
- >
-
- How about a server that fakes host names for people? Do you know of
- many other servers that do that? Gee mnystrom@patriot what the hell
- kind of address is that?
-
-
- The last server I remember that did that was sparc1...and it didn't do
- it for long. Before that, avalon did it (didn't last for long)
- Faking a hostname is frowned highly upon.
-
- -Alex
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