Subj : talking to myself To : Maurice Kinal From : Russell Tiedt Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 06:55 pm Hello Maurice. 21 Feb 05 09:59, you wrote to me: RT>> Well if you can get by, without internally, well, why not ... MK> For sure! The MSGID isn't needed for one's own stuff or at least not MK> anything I need. I tend to be fussy about archives here and don't MK> save much in the way of messages, nevermind Fido. As far as programs MK> go I tend to lean towards archiving the configurations and the such MK> and just use the basic GNU/Linux stuff. Even those I tend to play MK> with so there is very little that requires backing up, and that I tend MK> to be religious about ... most of the time. In fact I just finished MK> backing up the entire /etc on one machine a few minutes ago. A bit of MK> overkill but that made it easier and it isn't all that big. Tend to do much the same here, only I don't do back-ups as often as I might .... :-( MK>>> Everyone of those messages was a true dupe that not one tosser MK>>> caught. RT>> Yes and the reasons where many, including a new MSGID, origin and RT>> all ... :-(( MK> The MSGID was still there but effectively disabled and a new one MK> applied. Same with the rest, although it was "hidden". All that was MK> accomplished was to effectively add bloat wrt true Fido systems, the MK> idea being that the news server would use the new tags to spread the MK> word. That way when it returned to Fido systems the old tags SHOULD MK> have kicked back in. However we all got what was destined for the MK> news server and all the checks and balances were disabled. Yeah, as they say, shit happens, like it or not ... , Misconfigured systems are something we will always have ... MK> Fairly easy to figure out what went wrong there. Hmmm .... Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .