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- From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <85809@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 18:53:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.103032.563@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <avalon.725079206@coombs> <1992Dec23.202811.29630@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
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- Organization: Doug's House of Disco
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- asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
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- [...]
- >The last server I remember that did that was sparc1...and it didn't do
- >it for long. Before that, avalon did it (didn't last for long)
- >Faking a hostname is frowned highly upon.
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- The last server doing it that *I* remember was, I think mtecv2.something.mx,
- and it wasn't that long ago, and it was an open server.
- Anybody who used outside of that local domain was listed as
- <your user name>@itesm.something.mx. Always.
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- [ sorry ... deleted the attribution on this line ]
- >The point I was making is that neither lasted for long.
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- This one lasted several months, even after mentioning it on #tz. Our mass
- kicking/deopping/flooding friends loved it ...
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- ----------------------- \ Zippy says:
- Doug McLaren, \ All of a sudden, I want to THROW OVER my promising
- DemoN on IRC \ ACTING CAREER, grow a LONG BLACK BEARD and wear a
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