On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote: > > the RFC, it will just state something like "MX records can't point to > > CNAMES" -- and never really state why this is so. > You were given the answer to this two days ago and didn't bother to read > it. Russ just answered you again, let's see if you read it this time. I read it.. and Russ's response -- and a response from someone coding Bind 9. Ok, so we've beaten the dead horse with the fact that MX records can't be CNAMES... so why does bind allow this? Go figure. > Yes, I remember that tirade. You spent about 3 days trying to compile a > utility that basically does the same thing as a two-line shell script. > Also, if I remember correctly, the compilation problem you were having > had to do with an incompatibility that was specific to your platform, > namely Solaris, on which the (BSD) functions you needed had been moved > into a different library. Did you just conveniently forget about that? It's always me... me me me. You missed the whole point of the discussion and you still just don't get it. I got the program to compile just fine with the BSD libraries and do you know what? It crashes. > Everything you need to get a perfectly fine working qmail setup is on > ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu. Yes. Everything I need is on the Internet, well, except for good documentation -- and, no, I won't write better documentation because I can't get past the starting point. > > Been there, done that. Now I just get smurfed for my nick or opers > > "temp kline" me for my nick. Ya, I was an irc op on like the 8th (US?) > > server? I get kiddies (Adam?) who tell me IRC wasn't around before '91 > > since that's when the RFC was put out. Uh huh. > I don't believe there's a phrase or statement that you can't twist > around to suit your agenda. That's one thing you're actually pretty > good at. I suppose that we can attribute that to all of your years on > irc (pissing contest what?) Why thank you. I actually mentioned my enumerated post in IRC and one guy asked why I bothered with qmail and this list anymore (he has since moved on to postfix and has been happy). > Yeah but the following apparently had you baffled: > FILE=`ls /var/log/qmail | tail -n 1' > tail -f $FILE ls -rt , right? eh? alias x 'eval head -\`expr -\!:1 + `wc -l \!:2 | cut -b 0-9` \` \!:2' piss some more... > Blah blah blah.. more annoying off topic crap deleted.. > Before I go to sleep tonight I will pray that you switch to postfix. I'm compiling it now! :-) Scott
