From: "Geo." 

so far it's working great, telnet to

telnet nls.net 25

and you can see it in action . Only downside is Eudora for some
reason doesn't like to pass the error message along to the user, outlook
and outlook express are more than happy to kick the exact message up in the
users face but eudora give some cryptic error.

Geo.

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40b1c69c.2919988{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> > I need to allow the incoming connection then respond back to it with an
error
> > message. I managed to cobble it together using netcat and a batch file.
>
> You definitely win some sort of award for that amazing solution! If you
> get any problems with it, let me know and I'll think about alternatives.
>
> John
>

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