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- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.185533.27811@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 18:55:33 GMT
- References: <1gm486INN9nv@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec16.070728.13523@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <1992Dec17.024746.9922@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 29
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- cc4507@u.cc.utah.edu (Chucki Carpinello) was telling me...
- >In article <1992Dec16.070728.13523@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
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- <notes that chucki needs to trim those attribution lines>
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- >>gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) was telling me...
- >>>In article <1992Dec15.014934.16284@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>It's fake to me. host patriot doesn't give me anything a nic.ddn.mil whois
- >>>>of patriot doesn't help either I don't care what kind of stupid justification
- >>You get a clue...sheesh...You know WHY it's doing it, you know your finger
- >>is no proof of it's correctness. Gee, can anyone else who isn't
- >>at mit or have mit hostmasks do that? No, Doubtful.
- >>And if there would happen to be a patriot.calpoly.edu I would get
- >>Login name: mnystrom In real life:???
- >>
- >Well, for christs sake, if a user wanted to know what patriot was
- >THAT BAD, he could just ask!
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- Shouldn't have to ask. By your logic I could put up ANY fake host name I wanted
- to and say 'WEll if a user wanted to know what machine I was on THAT bad he could
- just ask!'
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- I don't think so.
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- -Alex
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