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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 20 Jul 1996 07:44:31 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4sq2ov$86a@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <4rjrkt$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> <4sjl49$150@gryphon.looking-glass.org> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.1 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4sjl49$150@gryphon.looking-glass.org>, bnb@looking-glass.org (Brian Blackmore) writes: >Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>Brian Blackmore (bnb@looking-glass.org) wrote: >>: 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 > [big arguement deleted] Aside from the fact this doesen't belong here: I know of at least 1 NNTP client newsreader, Trumpet, which does not use the appropriate GET, POST commands to post articles on the newsserver. Instead, it uses XFER. As a result the message ID's are not generated on the newserver, they are generated by the client newsreader program. The point is that you cannot draw generalizations about the configuration of a newsserver simply by looking at the headers of articles that appear to come from it.