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- From: gordon@rahul.net (Gordon Vickers)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
- Subject: I only posted it ONCE !!
- Message-ID: <C1A4EM.Eno@rahul.net>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:39:58 GMT
- Sender: news@rahul.net (Usenet News)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: a2i network
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- First, thank you to all (many, many, many) who sent me so much
- helpful information.
- For the many, many more who assumed that I was some sort of a
- WhatEverMutant for having posted so many copies : I only posted
- it once! Stop putting so much faith in the technology and so little
- in the people trying to use it, after all it's only 1993 !
-
- For a better explaination (and many thanks to Jeff Johnson):
- > From: jeffj@ultra.com (Jeff Johnson)
- > To: snmp@psi.com, gordon@rahul.net
- > Subject: Re: Very basic info needed (please)
- >
- >I was wondering why I was being bombarded with this message, and then
- >noticed the following:
- >=> Newsgroups: info.snmp,comp.protocols.snmp
- >
- >This message is being propagated by NetNews. The origin of this
- >message was a post to a local newsgroup "info.snmp" which is gatewayed
- >to this SNMP mailing list. Normally when a message is posted to a
- >local newsgroup it is not propagated outside the local domain. In this
- >case, however, it was cross-posted to a "global" newsgroup, hence the
- >message is being propagated. And now every site which has an
- >"info.snmp" newsgroup gatewayed to the mailing list is resending the
- >message to the list. I guess there is a lesson to be learned here, but
- >what is that message, and who is to for? I'd say the message is for
- >system admins, and the message is "don't gateway a message from a newsgroup
- >to a mailing list unless the message originated in your domain".
- >
- > Jeff Johnson | Ultra Network Technologies | voice: (408) 922-0100 x284
- > jeffj@ultra.com | 101 Daggett Drive | fax: (408) 433-9287
- >...ames!ultra!jeffj | San Jose, CA 95134 | sex: (900) 976-4825
- > The difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care
-
- --
- Gordon Vickers <gordon@rahul.net>
-