TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: alt-comp-anti-virus
to: FROMTHERAFTERS
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2015-04-24 14:59:00
subject: Generator trouble

 On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, FromTheRafters wrote to All:

>  F> Eh, it was just my way of saying it was a spoofed "Diesel" post. 
>  F> The "real" Diesel has "diesel" and the spoofer has "deisel" in 
>  F> the FQDN of  the MID.
>
> now you've gone and blown a method of determining the faker from the 
> real one... good show! :lol:

 F> How does that blow anything?

because the faker knows about it now and can fix their mistake...

 F> It, in fact, points out the way to filter  if one has the 
 F> capability to filter on MID's.

yes, until the faker fixes their mistake...

 F> The injecting server's  admin shouldn't let anyone else duplicate 
 F> the right hand side. 

agreed :) 

> nice how they attempted to get others to grab onto the pgp signature, 
> too...
>
>  F> A diesel generator I used at work was started up by compressed 
>  F> air when  the supplied power failed. We sometimes had to 
>  F> coordinate a 'test' with  the power company to avoid problems 
>  F> when testing the backup system. No  problems with batteries, 
>  F> switches, or flakey contactors.
>
> same here... we always have to coordinate unless we pull the mains 
> first... but then we also feed back and get paid for that, too ;) 

 F> I don't think ours were capable of that. Did they do stuff like 
 F> that back in the early 1980s?

AFAIK, yes... there's been something in the books for a long time about feeding
excess power back into the grid... i can't say that it is a law or anything but
i do know that the electric company has to pay you for that power you
provide...

)\/(ark

* Origin: (1:3634/12)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.