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Re: FW: Read not honouring "-r"?
- From: George <d1945 at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: Thread TITTTL'd! <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:03:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: FW: Read not honouring "-r"?
- References: <00f801c6dbcd$1b52d5f0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:22:19AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 19 September 2006 04:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:16:31PM +0930, Irwin, Doug wrote:
>>> Sorry about the double post - the mailserver reported that it had (a)
>>> stripped the attachments and (b) blocked the post. It obviously lied.
>
> If it didn't, it's being pretty amazingly thorough. Stripped the
> attachments *and* blocked it!?! That's really making sure it's dead!
My ex must have been a mail server in a previous life.
>> The sourceweare.org mail server never says that it stripped attachments
>> and doesn't lie about blocking posts.
>
> Probably it was his outgoing server.
>
> [...]
>
> Well, one of his many outgoing servers.
>
> To anyone familiar with the UK.gov's disastrous history of mega-scale
> IT project failures, almost every one of which was supplied and
> managed by EDS, it comes as little surprise (but much bitter irony) to
> discover they can't even operate a mail server correctly ...
Anyone familiar with the US.gov's disastrous history of involvement in
the middle east might recall that ex-Presidential candiate Ross "Giant
Sucking Sound" Perot founded EDS.
There's a joke in there somewhere.
--
George