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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
In the immortal words of Barry Shein ([email protected]): > > On September 30, 1998 at 14:40 [email protected] (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 ------------------------------------------------------------<[email protected]> "He has been known by many names; the Prince of Lies, the Director, Lucifer, Belial, and once, at a party, some obnoxious drunk kept calling him 'Dude'." <http://www.blank.org/memory/>------------------------------------------------
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