Quoth Dave C. on Sun, Oct 31, 1999:
> If your line is down, then by definition you DONT have a permanent
> connection ;)
Ok. s/permanent/non-dialup/g
> > And checking
> > hostnames won't work either -- you never know when some weird TLD
> > like ".nom" is defined.
>
> Ah.. thats when you bypass local DNS, and query a.root-servers.net
> yourself.
Again, you can have dialup connection which is down, ot
non-dialup (permanent?) connection which is down, do you can't
consult root servers.
> In any case, if your MUA doesnt want to generate a message ID, the
> first MTA to handle the message will generate one.
True, but that's exactly the problem -- the MUA often generated
Message IDs itself.
Vadik.
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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own
cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as
real life.
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