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Re: Offline Readers and broken software

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From: John Stanley
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:59
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In article <et6YrAjBBh108h@meteor.brisnet.org.au> rhys%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au writes:
>.  Through-out the
>whole episode I got the impression that Carlos _wanted_ to find a solution
>but was constrained by his service provider.

The fix is called getting a good copy of Waffle and setting the nodename
properly. That he could have done by himself.

>users, not sitting on my high horse and preaching at those who have
>systems I know nothing about.

It is called Waffle. You don't know anything about it?

>A note to Carlos: John is a professional net.agitator, so don't expect

At least YOU aren't calling me a racist.

>him to cool down anytime soon.  He's a great proponent of the theory
>that those who aren't as good as him shouldn't be on the net. :-(

Who was it who was complaining about putting words in mouths?

I am a great proponent of network connectivity, and I will continue to
point out sites that don't make the effort to follow the RFC's. "As good
as" never enters the picture. "Deliberately ignoring the problem" does.

>So, could we please give the "Carlos has a broken STATIC file" thread a
>rest now, and get back to the business of discussing Waffle?

You mean that system you don't know anything about?
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From: stanley@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
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Subject: Re: Offline Readers and broken software
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:59:29 GMT
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