I read your response and while I agree somewhat with your views I beg to
differ in many of your other views. What's the basic purpose of
this listserv is ? In my opinion it is to help folks who can't solve a
particular problem and need some guidance. Just because their communication
skills are not as good as yours it doesn't mean you can take whole day's
worth of your own grouchiness on the poor person. Not everyone
in the world speak English but they still can have valid questions and
problems.
Maybe you know more than everyone else on this listserv but if you
wanted you could have used that knowledge and immediately understood
what was the question all about ? But instead you chose to challenge the
question. Maybe with knowledge/authority there is some arrogance associated
always ?
Amit
Lord of Gore wrote:
Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
Not to start a flame war,
If you were really concerned about this you would have sent me a
private message. I do from time to time. You can even ask for my YM id
if you want to hate me in real-time. But this obliges me to make a
public point of view.
here, but isn't a pissy response like this
also a waste of bandwidth?
No it's not because it will make a future economy of bandwidth when
this guy and others will think twice before asking a dumb question
like that one.
You on the other hand, unfortunately, do not see this from a realistic
point of view. Consider the fact that such an e-mail needs a reply to
ask for a better description of the problem. That reply will be
replied by another e-mail containing more or less pertinent info on
the matter. Maybe someone thinks of a specific problem, sends a reply
to the first mail and receives one about not resolving the real
problem. We have now how many e-mails that didn't really solved the
problem? I'll tell you: five. say the medium size of the e-mails is
2KB. Multiply with 5 e-mails and with 1000 subscribers and you'll have
a 10MB useless communication. Waste enough for you?
Come on, maybe the guy's new?
No. I told you, he's lazy. Or he sucks at communication skills. Either
way redhat-list is not guilty for this. If you are his advocate then
tell me what he meant when he said "IP address of every email" and why
you are 100% he meant it. Responses below 100% degree of certitude are
not taken in account because this incertitude will generate mail
replies with at least twice the size.
Shit, I have
reporting tools that tell me the originating IP's of certain things
(e.g. malformed messages or control commands), and I have no idea how
they got them.
Then you should uninstall them. I am not complaining about the whole
e-mail IP thing but about the fact that an e-mail's envelope contains
many info that could be probed for an IP address. Therefore the
mention about the mind reading. Maybe you have a crystal ball but I
broke mine while trying to unleash the hidden powers of micro$oft
wi(n)dow$. The damn thing resigned and imploded. Said it was
overworked and overqualified for the job.
For others that have itchy hands/fingers: Yes, this e-mail *is*
contained in the waste of bandwidth type of communication. :) . The
only excuse is that I had to stand up and defend my point of view. 10q
for your patience.
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lord of Gore
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:23 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Email IP Address
Rizwan Khan wrote:
Hello
I wanted to check the IP address of every email that i am receiving,
is there any standard way of getting IP adress of incoming emails.
Thanks in advance
Another mail that I consider waste of bandwidth just because someone is
lazy enough to think that we are mind readers...
emails don't have ip addresses. tcp/ip packets do. maybe you' like to
tell us exactly what you want to find out.
sender's domain mx? originating smtp server?
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