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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:28:17 -0400
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory@blank.org>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
Cc: list@inet-access.net, inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu,
domain-policy@lists.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com,
publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <199809302116.AA02819@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 05:16:50PM -0400
In the immortal words of Barry Shein (bzs@world.std.com):
>
> On September 30, 1998 at 14:40 jshaw@insync.net (Joe Shaw) wrote:
> > All that proves is someone has a sense of humor. I've seen plenty of
> > sites with these types of greetings, and they aren't hard to setup. I had
> > a friend who setup his SMTP server to say:
>
> No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what
> advertises itself as the official US office of the Consulate of the
> Kingdom of Tonga.
Um, Barry, it indicates nothing other than that they're running
"Obtuse SMTPd" -- it (and its silly smtp messages) has been around
for years now, and it's generally regarded as being a fairly
useful little package.
I'm honestly surprised that you'd never run across it before. I first
saw it about two years back while watching a manual sendmail queue
run, and about spit my coffee into the keyboard from laughing.
http://www.obtuse.com/smtpd.html
-n
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Belial, and once, at a party, some obnoxious drunk kept calling him 'Dude'."
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