> Yesterday, I am ashamed to admit I changed the name of my Linux
> from k5di.ampr.org to cannac.ampr.org and to my utter surprise an old
> smtp message for wy5g.ampr.org started to be sent and was sent properly.
Most odd indeed, but why change the name to that and why be ashamed of it? Is
it someone elses hostname you decided to use... or just some kind of humo(u)r
that I as an English person wouldn't understand :-)
> I and Danny have been trying to smtp for a year now. We have a 1200 baud
> path with 2 repeaters. We could ping and ftp but not smtp. Now smtp
> works too and I have no idea why.
I must admit to have taken great pleasure from setting up a friends INN system
and UUCP from remote via a 1200 bps packet link (admittedly it was full
duplex), this included transferring the necessary files over.... masochism
lives!
> But this is what keeps things fun.
73 G7PIT
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