While we're in this little admin bitch session, does anyone know why so many
colleges and universities operate open relays? Do the admins not have a clue
or do they just not give a damn? I really get burned when I get a load of
spam from some damn colleges mail server, especially the state supported
ones.
David Daniels
System Administrator
Starfish Internet Service
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Clicking my fingers to the bone"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Where Did My Bounce Go?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Madscientist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 11:31 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Where Did My Bounce Go?
>
>
> > This could have been handled a little better don't you think?
>
> Depends. I have <insert reasonable number here> of years experience on
Unix
> etc systems, as well as NT, and all I ever seem to get is "NT admins..blah
> blah.. crap..blah blah.. don't now anything..blah blah... get a real OS ..
> blah blah".
>
> What pisses me off is the automatic assumption that if it's on an NT
system,
> the Op knows nothing and the Unix admin knows everything. So far ths
morning
> I have had more calls than I need doubting my professional ability,
without
> a jumped up dick like this one adding to it.
>
> What he said was wrong in just about every aspect. Get in and tell him he
is
> wrong, if he had come in my suite banging on like that, the only thing
that
> would have got to the hospital faster than him would have been the lights
on
> the ambulance taking him there. He got of lightly.
>
> I now return you to your scheduled programming, where the next idiot from
> the university blaming his inability to get mail from my network on my NT
> boxen rather than his flakey connection (which has is a documented history
> of being crap) gets smacked with a HotSwap backplane and shut in a comms
> cupboard.
>
>
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