home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31 / NN_1992_31.iso / spool / alt / irc / 4805 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1992-12-23  |  856 b 
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!coombs!avalon
  2. From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.irc
  4. Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
  5. Date: 23 Dec 92 02:53:26 GMT
  6. Organization: Australian National University
  7. Lines: 12
  8. Message-ID: <avalon.725079206@coombs>
  9. References: <1992Dec11.144428.13598@news.ysu.edu> <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
  11.  
  12. asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
  13.  
  14. [...]
  15. >The last server I remember that did that was sparc1...and it didn't do 
  16. >it for long.  Before that, avalon did it (didn't last for long) 
  17. >Faking a hostname is frowned highly upon.
  18.  
  19. I dont recall ever doing this on purpose if at all...
  20.  
  21. avalon
  22.  
  23. Say no to buggy code.
  24.