Re: 2.1.4 problems on i486

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:40:15 -0400 (EDT)

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> What the heck is happening here?
> Is the mailing list software accidentally misdirecting messages? What
> would cause this?

Well here is a possible explanation: dynamic IP addresses.

I used to get similar messages all the time when I had a dynamic IP.
It seems people in chat rooms figure the addresses are permanent,
and send mail to it - normally these get dumped in the postmaster's
box. I stopped getting such mail when I found an ISP with free static
IP addresses.

Just $0.02

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Andrew E. Mileski   mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net
Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/
XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html

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