Re: [OT] Way out in Left field

[Randy <abuse@verizon.net>]

Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Randy <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>>BTW: your postings sucks pretty much: no valid From, non-unique
>>>>>    message-ID (no fqdn). Perhaps you can correct this.
>>>>
>>>>Could someone explain what he is talking about here?
>>>>I am afraid I don't know.
>>>
>>>Sometimes I help to interpret, but not when the person being unclear
>>>cannot bother to use civil language.
>>
>>Yes, I hear you.  I thought he was quite rude for no reason.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, I never intended to be rude. I'm not a native speaker
> and I don't know that "sucks" is so negative. My intention was
> to only state that there are some points which could be improved.

It is hard to put meaning into text.
If you are not a native English speaker then perhaps you should not use 
words when you don't know the meaning of them?


> Though I prefer complete From-lines and especially a valid
> reply-to-address (which would let me tell all those things by
> mail instead of disturbing the audience with it), the real
> point to critizize is the violation of RFC850.
> 
> I think you're completely new to usenet so I guess you don't
> know what I'm talking about. Actually it isn't even your fault,
> your software is doing wrong.
> 
> If you read <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc850.html> and especially
> 2.1.7 you'll see that your message-id *must* contain a real
> domain name. Yours (trnddc03) isn't sufficient.
> 
> The sense of putting a valid domain name there is to guarantee
> the uniqueness of message-ids. That's important to identify
> every single posting all over the world. Any collision would
> break the primary key property. It's like two persons sharing the
> same name: you're always getting into trouble when referring
> to one of them ;)

I looked at that and I understand what you are looking for.
I don't know why it does not put the domain name.  I don't have any 
options to change this that I know of.
I am afraid you will have to accept it as it is for now.  Sorry.
Perhaps in the next upgrade to this program it will be addressed.
This is a windows port of a Linux mail program. I see you use Debian.

>>I'm wondering why he was looking at the header instead of
>>the message. Maybe he is some hacker looking for a person's
>>ID to steal.  Who knows.
> 
> 
> You're kidding?
> 
> 

Hey you never know.  I don't know you from Adam.
I really don't think most people look at the header unless they are 
looking to find out where the person is from or other information.
I don't see the point in looking at it in the first place, and if it is 
just an interest of yours, you could have explained much better about 
what was going on instead of just saying my post sucked,(you did in this 
message, thanks for clearing that up a little for me.)
Most ID theft (from what I understand of it, and that is not very much 
at this point) is from people outside of the U.S.A.
(This being from a newscast for a 10 minute segment about ID theft)
Guess you all figure everyone in the U.S.A. is rich or something. 
(cough, cough)

Anyway I'm done spouting sorry for the length of it.