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Re: Offline Readers and broken software

#3134
From: Carlos Dominguez
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:15
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In <1jiv00INN22s@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:

>Maybe it isn't Helldiver's fault at all, it is a misconfigured Waffle
>site. Yours, to be specific. Fix your node name to contain a fully
>qualified domain name.

For the last time, My STATIC file is configured correctly for the
modified version of WAFFLE I was given by my host. period

>The problem isn't Helldiver. 

Then why did Rhys email me the new HSEND.EXE fix, which now correctly
sets my headers?

>Maybe if your Waffle was configured correctly it would be more
>functional?

See above topic..

>No, you don't really care. If you did, you would fix your Waffle
>configuration NOW and be in compliance NOW.  What happens when the
>"fix" to Helldiver doesn't fix your static file? What will you blame
>then?  And why should Helldiver be "fixed" because you didn't configure
>your site properly?

Since now HELLDIVER works properly, I guess that unix-gurus like yourself
will now have to look for other things to do, than flame end-users
like me.

>Relying on the loose interpretation of the standards by other sites is
>not the correct solution to a misconfiguration problem. 

Loosen your belt a notch or two, you are taking this way too seriously

{sisko, out}


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From: carlos@infoserv.com (Carlos Dominguez)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Offline Readers and broken software
Message-ID: <78WYrAsFBh107h@carlos>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:15:55 -0500
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