Re: foreign ip in /var/log/wtmp

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

On Tue, 08 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.security, in article
<uP30i.16313$Vi6.4467@edtnps82>, Unruh wrote:

Of course you do not give enough information that anyone could help you.
What foreign IP?

Maybe if you used a competant newsreader that can thread articles
together, you might see that the addresses have been posted four times in
the past week. But then, who knows, you MIGHT even learn how to trim
posts, not top-post, etc..

My point was that people do NOT read through back posts to figure out what
the topic is, that when asking for help one should try hard to make each
post self contained if you are asking for help. Otherwise people look at
the post and pass it by since they have no idea from the post what the
problem is. I happen to be someone who complains when something like that
happens because I have found that things do not get fixed otherwise.
(Obviously from this post you share that attitude.)

Top posting is fine in some circumstances. The attitude, that one should
always bottom post is idiotic in many situations-- I have seen far too many
posts with a 40 line repost with a one line answer, which is off the mark
anyway. I would rather find out what the poster thinks is new on a topic up
front. One of the wonderful things about news posters is that they stick
those little > symbols in front of lines so you can figure out the order of
the post without having to resort to spatial ordering.

Trimming I have less of a defense for, and will accept your chastisement,
except I would far rather see a post with less trimmed off so I could
figure out from the post itself what the post is about. There is another
thread pointing out yestrday's Dilbert cartoon. That is what excessive
trimming does.


Bill, you _really_ are acting like a luser

Old guy
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