Hex wrote in a message to George White:

 H>   Re: homebrewed ethernet/phone cable tester
 H>   By: George White to Hex on Thu Aug 28 2003 07:15 pm

 > Hi Hex,
 > 
 > Hi Who? Can we have a real name please!
 
 H> That is my name.

All of it?  A "real-sounding" name would be preferable...

 > Yes, Varuios ideas come to mind, but I need to know your level of
 > competance to know how to approach the problem.

 H> competent enough to follow plans, but not enough to design this one
 H> on the  fly. just kinda hoping someone here had some plans (or
 H> somewhat detailed  theories) I could go by.

 >  H> -Hex
 >  H> SysOp / Hex's Hideout
 >  H> telnet://desire.rains.net:999
 >  H> -!- SBBSecho 2.00-Linux
 >  H>  - Origin:  (1:11/9999)
 > 
 > Can't find the BBS in my nodelist, so I can't work out your real name
 > or where you are :-(. Shouldn't the origin be 1:261/9999 ?
 > 
 > George

 H> doesn't matter, dns screwed up today, and I must have missed 
 H> something  when I reconfigured everything for net 261, I'll have
 H> that fixed as soon as I can work in some time. thanks for pointing
 H> that out.

 H> -Hex
 H> ___ SBBSecho 2.00-Linux
 H>  - Origin:  (1:11/9999)

Yeah,  it's a bit of a problem all right.  /999 and /9999 numbers are
supposed to be used _only_ for new sysops putting in applications,  and to
establish initial connectivity,  not to fly in echomail.

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