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From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 20:16:52 GMT
Organization: Dragonhill Systems Ltd
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Message-ID: <837721012snz@dsl.co.uk>
References: <4schgu$7t@anorak.coverform.lan> <837555317snz@dsl.co.uk> <4sifsa$d8@anorak.coverform.lan>
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In article <4sifsa$d8@anorak.coverform.lan>
brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk "Brian Somers" writes:
> [snip Brian's excellent explanation of what had happened...]
> IMO, inn should force the user to specify a fully qualified server.
I rather think I have to agree with you there: maybe tin *does* need
patching :-)))
> [another snip...]
> As a matter of interrest, "Coverform" *is* the name of my company - so
> you were (by chance) pretty close in your original acquisation. However,
> I am the only employee of this company, and I am the only user of the
> news that's downloaded from Demon through awfulhak.demon.co.uk. So, I
> believe that even if what I'm doing is not "to the letter" of my
> contract with Demon, it's "in the spirit". One account, one user.
Well, that's alright then. Sorry to have maligned you (but you've got to
admit, it *did* look suspicious).
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
Tony Blair's New Labour: The Windows'95 of Political Parties
(c/w Plug'n'Pray and a pretence of offering object-orientation)