[thechat] Say Hello to Sanjeep, Er, Sam

Martin Paul Burns martin.burns at uk.ibm.com
Fri Oct 25 08:38:01 CDT 2002




> I could overhear the call ... I swear ... he made the tech
> support guy repeat his name THREE times ... Then (this was
> classic) he made the support guy SPELL his name because my
> co-worker was still having trouble figuring out what the
> heck he was saying.

> The support tech's name?   Steve Smith.

Shurely Shome Mishtake - the tech's name should be Bob:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bob.html

It even made its way into the support doc for customers connecting to Demon
with DOS:
http://www.maghmell.demon.co.uk/dispc/dispc.html
2.2.3) Rejecting Mail for unknown users


The other approach to unwanted mail is to only accept mail for known users,
and reject all other mail. To only allow mail for known users, remove the
line starting default from your alias file, and, assuming your email name
is bob, add the lines:


postmaster bob
webmaster bob
Cheers
Martin




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