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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ralphs
- From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
- Subject: Re: Archive-Server Requests to Halcyon.COM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.173051.13357@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <1992Dec29.214826.8782@nwnexus.WA.COM> <7cNLwB1w165w@jaiser.rain.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:30:51 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- jerryg@jaiser.rain.com (Jerry Gaiser) writes:
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- >ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
-
- >> Most failed requests to the archive-server (ANY archive-server)
- >> are due to incorrect format of the request. In the case of the
-
- >And as I discovered last night, don't append a signature because the
- >server craps out with too many errors.
-
- Placing the word 'quit' (no quotes, of course) as the last command
- in the requests stops processing at that point, so the sig file gets
- ignored. There's a lot of stuff in 'help' that's worth reading.
- If it wouldn't be unmanageable, a database of requestors could be
- kept and a help file sent to anyone making a request that wasn't
- in the current database.
-
- "Docs? We don't need no steenkin' docs, man!"
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