From: mnystrom@athena.mit.edu (Mika Nystroem)
Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:49:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.050054.16142@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
|> In article <1gbjbpINNjr2@life.ai.mit.edu> gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) writes:
|> 
|> > BTW, do you really think patriot
|> >routes off charon?
|> 
|> I take it this means you want you C/N lines deleted? OK.
|> 
|> 
 Hi everyone! I don't usually read alt.irc, but I heard something relevant was
going on, so I wanted to check out the action :)

     This thread was started by someone saying that I had annoyed a user and then
/killed him. This is true to the extent that I had a conversation with the 
user in question about him annoying some other user... I wasn't "annoying" him.
I am also not in the habit of /killing people without a reason. Or /killing
them in the first place, for that matter. 
If you have any more questions about this, you can feel free to email me at
the listed address.

     As far as the C/N lines for patriot on charon are concerned, I can inform 
all of you that the first thing I did when I saw the L-line on charon was 
that I changed the link password. I will change it back as soon as the 
L-line has been removed. Until then, MIT will have two separate, 
unconnected servers. I realize this was not the purpose of entering it in 
the first place, but really, how do you expect me to act differently?

     Patriot has never in normal operation linked off charon, and
it is not my intention to ever have it do so. The few times I did it, I had users 
complain almost immediately with phrases such as "What the hell happened? My
ping times just went through the roof." On the other hand, I have tried to 
keep charon linked off patriot for most of the past few weeks, and this has
usually worked quite well. 

     Last year, I was a lowly "luser" of irc here at MIT, and it made me very 
annoyed that the best we could do with the computer resources available here 
was irc.mit.edu for our irc server. It still seems a little strange that
charon is what we have, when it has to be one of the slowest workstations
on campus. Hell, any one of the new Athena workstations would do a much
better job. That's the reason I put up patriot. It is by far the fastest 
and least loaded irc server in this area, and I invite requests for links from 
other (genuine) servers. Patriot is a VAX9000/420 supercomputer
and is not likely to have any trouble with multiple server links, so if you 
want to load it with some heavy traffic, that's fine with me. There is one
catch: The machine itself may be removed some time in the future (about when
charon is upgraded? hehe :)) but why not use it while it's there? (It is open-
client too, why don't you check it out! :))

>Greg McMullan, among others. Aren't vanity servers fun? Especially the
>ones brought to us by Gwydion and Belladona.

     In case anyone wonders, I personally did all the installing of the ircd on 
patriot. I am the only person with access either to the executable or to the
ircd.conf, and I intend to keep it that way. The I line is "* *", there are
no K-lines, no L-lines, and I am not going to release the list of O-lines here, 
but let's just say "It's short." 

     If there are any followups to this, please Cc: mnystrom@athena.mit.edu
(if you don't get that, I mean "send me a copy") because I don't usually read 
this newsgroup.

    Best Regards,
      Mika Nystroem
      mnystrom@athena.mit.edu



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