Subj : Tiers
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Jack Yates
Date : Thu Aug 02 2001 01:13 pm

 JY>> Which takes vigilance, and hands-on familiarity with your system;
 JY>> not letting it "run unattended", as Stewart has suggested.

 SH> Careful there, Jack, or you'll pull a hamstring.

Not today.

 SH> You appear to be under the impression that I believe that servers
 SH> should be setup and then forevermore ignored. This is not the case in
 SH> the least. What I'm saying is that they shouldn't require hand-holding
 SH> to ensure that they remain alive 24x7.

Mine doesn't.

 SH> As I write, I'm about 25km away from my house, SSH'ed into my machine

<much underwheming text deleted>

 SH> often around these parts. When it tosses mail, it goes where it's
 SH> supposed to, and my downlinks get their mail as they're supposed to.
 SH> Simple, no?

Strange.  I get the same results and i serve more than 5 downlinks.



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