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From: peter@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:13:03 +0000
Organization: Nefarious Enterprises Inc.
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Message-ID: <AE1E82EF96684651D@petermc.demon.co.uk>
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> <4s5bto$64j@gryphon.looking-glass.org>
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In article <4s5bto$64j@gryphon.looking-glass.org>,
bnb@looking-glass.org (Brian Blackmore) wrote:

><Reality>
>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
>after the @ anorak.coverform.lan is *not* a valid internet domain
>name, if everyone choose stupid domain names and didn't register them
>there would be clashes all over the place and a Message-Id would not
>be unique.)

Following this conversation as a lay outsider, what I find
bizzare is why anyone who wasn't entitled to it would actually
feign anorak status -- and then go out of their way to demonstrate
that it's feigned.

Some people have the strangest aspirations. :)

-- 
peter@petermc.demon.co.uk