Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

Thu Oct 1 00:28:17 UTC 1998

In the immortal words of Barry Shein (bzs at world.std.com):
> 
> On September 30, 1998 at 14:40 jshaw at insync.net (Joe Shaw) wrote:
>  > All that proves is someone has a sense of humor.  I've seen plenty of
>  > sites with these types of greetings, and they aren't hard to setup.  I had
>  > a friend who setup his SMTP server to say:
> 
> No I think it indicates that a bunch of clowns have taken over what
> advertises itself as the official US office of the Consulate of the
> Kingdom of Tonga. 

Um, Barry, it indicates nothing other than that they're running 
"Obtuse SMTPd" -- it (and its silly smtp messages) has been around
for years now, and it's generally regarded as being a fairly
useful little package.

I'm honestly surprised that you'd never run across it before.  I first
saw it about two years back while watching a manual sendmail queue 
run, and about spit my coffee into the keyboard from laughing.

	http://www.obtuse.com/smtpd.html

-n

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