On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Tony Crawford wrote:
> Me too (if indeed the whole business is necessary).
People tell me that in the NAT world, it is necessary. However, it *is*
optional in Exim. You don't have to have it.
> The telnet
> command line at least takes a space before the port number.
Showing yet another convention. After some research, this is what I now
know:
Telnet uses space
Solaris netstat uses dot
HP-UX netstat uses dot
Digital Unix netstat uses dot
IRIX netstat uses dot
BSDI netstat uses dot
FreeBSD netstat uses dot
Linux netstat uses colon
Several other applications use colon
Plan 9 uses exclamation mark
Anybody seen anything else?
On that basis, I don't think dot is really such a bad idea after all.
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