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- From: stanley@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers and broken software
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:59:29 GMT
- Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, College of Oceanography
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- References: <1j310aINN62q@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1jsqs3INNm5b@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <et6YrAjBBh108h@meteor.brisnet.org.au>
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- In article <et6YrAjBBh108h@meteor.brisnet.org.au> rhys%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au writes:
- >. Through-out the
- >whole episode I got the impression that Carlos _wanted_ to find a solution
- >but was constrained by his service provider.
-
- The fix is called getting a good copy of Waffle and setting the nodename
- properly. That he could have done by himself.
-
- >users, not sitting on my high horse and preaching at those who have
- >systems I know nothing about.
-
- It is called Waffle. You don't know anything about it?
-
- >A note to Carlos: John is a professional net.agitator, so don't expect
-
- At least YOU aren't calling me a racist.
-
- >him to cool down anytime soon. He's a great proponent of the theory
- >that those who aren't as good as him shouldn't be on the net. :-(
-
- Who was it who was complaining about putting words in mouths?
-
- I am a great proponent of network connectivity, and I will continue to
- point out sites that don't make the effort to follow the RFC's. "As good
- as" never enters the picture. "Deliberately ignoring the problem" does.
-
- >So, could we please give the "Carlos has a broken STATIC file" thread a
- >rest now, and get back to the business of discussing Waffle?
-
- You mean that system you don't know anything about?
-
-