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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: rsc@swtch.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] $smtp dns failure
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:28:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <182d7a6313b5436bb9ab6ceae1284af2@coraid.com> (raw)

'$' seems like an unfortunately choice for dial strings because 
it is easy to confuse with a shell/environment variable.

perhaps a different character could be chosen?

	net!¢smtp!smtp

the cost of change, unfortunately, would be high.

- erik


             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-15 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-15 19:28 erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-01-15 19:42 ` Paul Lalonde
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-16 20:31 erik quanstrom
2007-01-16 20:50 ` geoff
2007-01-16 17:01 erik quanstrom
2007-01-15 16:55 Matthias Teege
2007-01-15 18:05 ` Federico Benavento
2007-01-15 19:22   ` Russ Cox
2007-01-15 18:10 ` geoff
2007-01-15 20:02   ` Matthias Teege
2007-01-15 23:35     ` Steve Simon
2007-01-16 16:46       ` Matthias Teege
2007-01-16 18:21         ` Steve Simon
2007-01-16 18:31           ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-16 18:44             ` Russ Cox
2007-01-16 18:52               ` lucio
2007-01-16 19:05               ` erik quanstrom
2007-01-16 19:30                 ` Russ Cox

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