Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:46:25 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), adf@fl.net.au, olah@cs.utwente.nl, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Message-ID: <199603130846.AAA03007@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:14:31 MST." <199603122114.OAA06574@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP > > "Fixed" is subjective. It saves one response packet and loses > > interoperability. 8-(. > > Only with broken TCP implementations like the Annex's. We'll never see the > broken code change if no one complain and make them fix their bugs. This is a wonderful theory. To make it work, wouldn't the bug reports have to go to their lists instead of ours? No, it's actually better if the bug reports come to US first. The reason being that most vendors would say "pshaw, you guys are idiots." whereas there are a bunch of us on the mailing list who can point to the exact bits of trivia in RFC-793 and sample "killer packets" to get these guys to fix their TCP implementation.
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