Posted by Matthew Pratt on 1999-03-15
> A good concept. You may want to change the port that the service > is provided on however. Port 78 is a reserved port for the vettcp Fair point, although I dont even know what that service is let alone ever run it on any of my boxes. Anyway it is tcp_wrapped so only users on my home lan can access it, so it should be not hassle to outsiders. > service. In addition, standards are usually a nice thing - especially in > relation to networks. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority > (www.iana.org) might be a good place to check out. Thats nice, but this software was written by me for me and if anyone else wants to they can go right ahead. If they want to use a different port number they can modify the source and use whatever they want. > Don't tell me you can't see the irony of insulting both a person > and Yahoo by telling them to "go point 'n click" when you yourself use > yahoo mail? Yeah it is kinda funny isn't it. I only just yahoo mail for the use anywhere web interface. I'd be quite happy to use pine on an ordinary pop mail box but, unfortunatley I dont always have acces to a 'nix workstation (Educational institutions insist on macs in non technical situations). == Matty email - mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx "Learn the console, become 1 with it, it is 0." _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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