Why? Are you trying to hide the fact that you enable bd
to continue on his quest?


"FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
news:j112rb$6rq$1@dont-email.me...
Spyware group removed

~BD~ wrote:
> FromTheRafters wrote:
>> "~BD~"<~BD~@nomail.afraid.com> wrote in message
>> news:Ys2dnaLXj4sYJa7TnZ2dnUVZ7tSdnZ2d@bt.com...
>>> FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>> "Dustin"<bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:Xns9F31D2724E994HHI2948AJD832@no...
>>>>> G. Morgan<G_Morgan@easy.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:jkl537puukrjda1tsqi8fu0pl3qnbvkvde@Osama-is-dead.net:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ~BD~ wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To *GET* the text file, one *has* to visit a URL.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or use the command line 'wget' in a sandbox, for the paranoid.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or use the sites known IP and forget the "URL" altogether...
>>>>
>>>> Isn't it still a URL even if you use the numerical address
>>>> instead of a name to look up? )
>>>
>>> Not according to this item!
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform...rce_Identifier
>>
>> What part of that item says that a numerical address disqualifies the
>> string as
>> being a URL?
>
>
> Do you think I might have misunderstood this?

Yes.

> "One can classify URIs as locators (URLs), or as names (URNs), or as
> both. A Uniform Resource Name (URN) functions like a person's name,
> while a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) resembles that person's street
> address. In other words: the URN defines an item's identity, while the
> URL provides a method for finding it."
>
>
>>> I learn a lot from being here on SE!
>>
>> Here's your chance to teach *me* something.
>>
>> Why isn't http://88.198.244.100/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier a URL?
>
> I'm considering first why I should be getting this response:-

Because it is a *bad* URL and the nntp server doesn't know what to do
with the request.
>
> 200 mx04.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.0
> (20110502 snapshot) ready (posting ok)
> 500 What?
> 500 What?
> 500 What?
> 500 What?
> 500 What?
> 500 What?
> 500 What?
>
>
> *
>
> Just going to wash my car. I'll be back later! :-)

I posted what *might* be a good URL in the test-here group.