Re: ftp passive mode and iptables

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 12/31/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 02:26:11 GMT

In article <zi6Q9.60007$Zv4.4795530@news2.telusplanet.net>,
Anonymous <me@here.com> wrote:
>> Okay, so if you are certain that David wasn't objecting to your assertion
>that
>> "iptables... it's a mess", then he must have been objecting to something
>else.
>> Do you think it could possibly be the only other thing he wrote about
>there,
>> namely that you quoted a couple of hundred lines in order to add _one_ of
>your
>> own? I know it always pisses me off when I have to scroll through a bunch
>of
>> quoted text, just to read an insignificant, and largely unhelpful, comment
>> somewhere near the end. I can only imagine what fun it is for someone
>stuck
>> at a text-based newsreader that doesn't colour quotes!
>
>Wow, it sure is hard to scroll down isn't it.

No, just annoying to have to do it for no good reason. Do you *really*
need to quote a hundred lines just to make a useless, pithy comment? This
is supposed to be a technical newsgroup -- we were expecting to see
something constructive. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
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