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- From: carlos@infoserv.com (Carlos Dominguez)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers and broken software
- Message-ID: <78WYrAsFBh107h@carlos>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:15:55 -0500
- References: <GhMXrACKBh107h@carlos> <1jfpfiINN214@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1j310aINN62q@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1jiv00INN22s@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
- Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA
- Lines: 43
- X-Newsreader: Helldiver 1.07 (Waffle 1.64)
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- In <1jiv00INN22s@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
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- >Maybe it isn't Helldiver's fault at all, it is a misconfigured Waffle
- >site. Yours, to be specific. Fix your node name to contain a fully
- >qualified domain name.
-
- For the last time, My STATIC file is configured correctly for the
- modified version of WAFFLE I was given by my host. period
-
- >The problem isn't Helldiver.
-
- Then why did Rhys email me the new HSEND.EXE fix, which now correctly
- sets my headers?
-
- >Maybe if your Waffle was configured correctly it would be more
- >functional?
-
- See above topic..
-
- >No, you don't really care. If you did, you would fix your Waffle
- >configuration NOW and be in compliance NOW. What happens when the
- >"fix" to Helldiver doesn't fix your static file? What will you blame
- >then? And why should Helldiver be "fixed" because you didn't configure
- >your site properly?
-
- Since now HELLDIVER works properly, I guess that unix-gurus like yourself
- will now have to look for other things to do, than flame end-users
- like me.
-
- >Relying on the loose interpretation of the standards by other sites is
- >not the correct solution to a misconfiguration problem.
-
- Loosen your belt a notch or two, you are taking this way too seriously
-
- {sisko, out}
-
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