At 12:38 PM 10/06/2002 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote: >It seems to be strange that he wrote at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >an address which is also given on his web page, but >ping pipeline.com doesn't work.
Lots of machines don't accept pings anymore, either for security reasons or whatever. That's independent of whether those names accept email, or whether you can find MX records for them. In particular, most big ISPs have multiple machines accepting mail; if you wanted to ping, you'd have to try box1.bigisp.com, box2.bigisp.com, box3.bigisp.com, ... Pipeline was in the big-ISP business, and I suspect they've been eaten enough times that pipeline is just an alias on a big email server farm.
