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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: <1992Dec16.193715.20487@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:37:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.083755.6691@cc.umontreal.ca> <1992Dec15.202923.9973@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <9212161402.AA06659@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) was telling me...
- >On 15 Dec 92 20:29:23 GMT, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) said:
- >
- > > People have explained possible reasons. But seems to me that since it
- > > HASN'T been fixed, then I consider it a hack...how long has patriot
- > > been up? I haven't kept track...but it's been a while. He knows
- > > the problem exists, so why has nothing been done to fix it?
- >
- > I'll tell you why: because if it doesn't break sendmail (i.e.,
- >the domain is stamped by the mailserver so that a recipient can directly
- >reply to a mailing from that machine) it just isn't a high priority to
- >fix. The only reason I fixed it here is because my braindead mailserver
- >*doesn't* stamp domains properly on outgoing mail.
-
- And how do you know patriot would be any different. According to what
- has been said it hasn't even been attempted to fix, so how are you going
- to know it's gonna break other things?
- > > Oh, a few days, a week...Well atleast you're expedient in fixing it.
- > > From mystroms post, he did not see it a a problem, nor did he show
- > > any indication of wanting to fix it.
- >
- > Why screw with what ain't broken? I've done enough of that to
- >know it usually breaks something else that's more critical.
-
- Oh I see, you wouldn't consider it broken huh? Maybe a feature? Doubtful.
- I wouldn't say it's working as it should.
-
- -Alex
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