Group: news.software.readers
From: Troy Piggins
Date: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: Update: [slrn] NNTP-Posting-Host whois lookup macro

* andrew is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> On 2007-09-06, Troy Piggins wrote:
>> * Blinky the Shark is quoted & my replies are inline below :
>>> John E. Davis wrote:
>>>> On 6 Sep 2007 06:02:50 GMT, Blinky the Shark < @ >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> /stuff/comp/
>>>>
>>>> What version of slang are you using? If you are using version 1,
>>>
>
> A little late in the effort I have installed the macro and it works
> beautifully. Thhis is the version taken from the website on sept 6
> 1700. Thanks for making the effort Troy!!
>
> This is with:
>
> andrew@ilium:~$ slrn --version
> Slrn [2005-02-17]
> * Note: This version is a developer preview.
> S-Lang Library Version:
>
> Now to check out the spam merchants and nym-shifters :-)

:) Since using it I've discovered there's a hell of a lot of
news servers that don't have that header, and of the ones that do
the whois database doesn't seem to know about some of them. Oh
well.

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