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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!user From: peter@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:13:03 +0000 Organization: Nefarious Enterprises Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <AE1E82EF96684651D@petermc.demon.co.uk> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <4rjrkt$ih@anorak.coverform.lan> <4rphs7$158@avondale.demon.co.uk> <4rr0us$fj@anorak.coverform.lan> <4rtrbh$2s8@avondale.demon.co.uk> <4s05rc$k9@anorak.coverform.lan> <4s5bto$64j@gryphon.looking-glass.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: petermc.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: petermc.demon.co.uk In article <4s5bto$64j@gryphon.looking-glass.org>, bnb@looking-glass.org (Brian Blackmore) wrote: ><Reality> >Your knowledge of this subject shows up as being totally crap, by the >statement you said above and also by the fact that your news setup >breaks RFC1036 (message ID's must have a valid internet domain name >after the @ anorak.coverform.lan is *not* a valid internet domain >name, if everyone choose stupid domain names and didn't register them >there would be clashes all over the place and a Message-Id would not >be unique.) Following this conversation as a lay outsider, what I find bizzare is why anyone who wasn't entitled to it would actually feign anorak status -- and then go out of their way to demonstrate that it's feigned. Some people have the strangest aspirations. :) -- peter@petermc.demon.co.uk