User talk:Wrs1864/Archive 1

Archive 1

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Reverted vandalism on user page

Hi, I blanked the vandalism on your user page. If you want, you can request deletion of your user page using {{db-vandal}} so that the vandalism is not the only thing in the page history. -- Gogo Dodo 04:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Add Phishing by Police

Please participate in the discussion, "Add Phishing by Police," before again deleting my entry. It is near the bottom of the discussions page, for Phishing.

Pokey

Funny, I've known him for years and never have seen anything other than Jef. Of course, he's exactly the sort to deliberately confuse people over it, just for sport. Since he's universally known as Jef, the main article should be titled that way if one is ever made. He's interesting enough so that creating one could be fun. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 15:45, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

About the Watch mf page

You do honestly seem concerned about the list of watch manufacturers if a bit too focused on deletion, which is against my preferences, but anyway, take a look at it now. You seem informed enough about the subject to offer some input on where it should go from here. Maybe put some basic criteria at the top. Seriously, it shouldn't be too hard to define something. Might not cover things historically, but we don't have to do that on this page. Though it might be helpful to do so, and that would be something categories could not do effectively. FrozenPurpleCube 03:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I saw your changes, but only *after* I made my comments in the AfD page. I'm not sure that what you did was as much of an improvement as you may have hoped. I strongly suspect that a significant percentage (most?) of those links are for companies that are not notable and by changing them from being external links to redlines, you have actually made it harder to clean up the page.

I can understand why I appear to be focused on deletion, and you may have a point. My two areas of expertise are spam (see SPF) and watches (Elgin in particular). My knowledge of both areas screams out that this is a spam-magnet that will not be kept clean. I know that I do not have time to do it. The whole horological area of the wikipedia is filled with fanboy type claims and commercial hype to boost the standing of modern watch companies with a large amount of myths and bogus information thrown in. Rolex, for example, is credited with inventing lots of stuff that was actually invented centuries earlier.

I'm afraid that what you have done will likely result in just encouraging these companies to create lots of entries for non-notable companies. Wrs1864 05:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, duh, why would I make changes to a page before I saw it? There's hundreds of thousands of pages on Wikipedia, and I must admit, I have no special interest or knowledge in watches. If you hadn't brought it up on AfD, I wouldn't have even thought about it. And I was waiting to see if there was a strong consensus to delete before tackling the edits myself, and removing what I saw as the worst part. But if it will work better for you to fix it from an earlier version, you can easily go back and make your edits there. I won't complain that you've done your reversions from a past version. I really just wanted to clear out the external links to start with, as that was the most immediate problem with the article. You may be right that there are people who will add frivolous entries to this list, but I would say, that's not a reason to delete in and of itself. If it becomes a problem, you can ask an admin to protect the page, or put it on the list of pages asking people to lend a hand watching it. Or stronger warnings at the top. Yes, this list started off a external linkfarm, but since I would say it split from Watch like that, that was a fault of the people who did the split as a copy from the Watches page, not a result of spam-problems. They started off wrong. Anyway, if you find problems with articles, you should bring them up. I don't see any comments by you on the Rolex page, but if they're making false claims, remaining silent isn't the way to fix them. FrozenPurpleCube 16:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, when I said "after I made my comments on the AfD", I meant my most recent comments where I asked if deleting all external links would be acceptable, not my initial AfD listing. Sorry for the confusion. As for doing a lot of work in the watch-related areas, I repeat, I just do not have time. Even cleaning up the one list of watch manufactures I would estimate to likely take hundreds of hours. Seriously. You can't accepted marketing claims that the various companies "make watches" and the important information is too well hidden. Again, I think what you did will probably just make things worse by encouraging the creation of non-notable company pages, but please don't expect me to finish what you started. Wrs1864 18:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I sincerely doubt it'd take hundreds of hours to get the list into a more acceptable shape. Perfect? Maybe, but that's not what you, or anyone else should be aiming for. Set your sights a little lower, just work on what you know. Put in five minutes, and hour, hope another dozen people show up and do the same (though in the cases of watches, I doubt it'll happen). Yes, I understand that at a deep level there may be cases where one company is just rebranding another companies, and that sort of thing is not public, let alone common knowledge. But so what? There are folks who don't know, or care that Sears doesn't make their own equipment. Or Emerson. Or any of a dozen companies. All of that information may be known by someone, but it may not be readily available. Eventually though, Wikipedia should contain that knowledge. Or at least, that's the dream. One person can't do it all though, no matter how much they try. So we hope there's eventually enough to get it right. BTW I doubt all that many company pages will be made. People have to have the incentive to do it first, and in many cases, that won't happen. If there are some, well, that's no worse than Wikipedia gets every single day. But if you are truly worried about it, be bold and revert. I doubt it's any better, but you never know. FrozenPurpleCube 22:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Your comments on your spam edit

Not sure if the "anit-spam kook" comment was sent my way or not... regardless, knock it off. Please see WP:NPA, no personal attacks if this is confusing for you. Sethie 01:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

No, sorry, it wasn't intended to be sent your way or to be a personal attack. It was supposed to be humor and was basically a direct quote from one of the references that was given: [1]. I'm going to post this to both of our talk pages to make sure it is clear. If I could edit the history comment, I would. Again, sorry, it was intended as a humor. Wrs1864 01:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Wayne!

Thanks for your welcome! JeffGent 19:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

REvision of page "Internet"

please discuss revisions of accurate information on talk page before blindly assuming you are correct --Rebent 14:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm.... strange that you think you are correct and therefore assume that you can make the changes. I have put a comment on the talk page though. Wrs1864 15:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

RFC 1149

the problem is there was no discussion on RFC 1149 unless you can show me one. Cocoaguy_contribs^talk 03:56, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

it is listed in with the other RFCs, all 104 of them. see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion#December_21. Wrs1864 04:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Harris's Lament

My condolences on your recent loss. -- Jeff G. 22:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Harris's lament still exists, the capitalized version needs a redirect, and possibly Harris' Lament also. I'm not going to add them until after the prod gets decided though. Thanks for all your work on it. The WSJ article is a nice touch. Wrs1864 22:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Right, the title of this section is NOT the page we were working on at Harris's Lament. Never mind. -- Jeff G. 22:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Hostname

Hi, I see that you're still editing Hostname, so I'm not going to touch it right now. Please consider adding a Scarcity link to the "See also" section of Hostname, given my recent changes to Scarcity. Thanks! -- Jeff G. 22:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks. Wrs1864 22:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Your edits to Domain name

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Wrs1864! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but please note that the link you added in is on my spam blacklist and should not be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links policy for more information. If your link was genuine spam, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 01:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I have responded on your talk page, and I will make followups there if you respond there. Wrs1864 02:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Shadowbot +example.com

Shadowbot actually has a built-in safety check that will stop it from reverting if it detects that it has edited that article within the last two edits. This basically means that if you revert Shadowbot's reversion, it will leave you alone. Shadow1 (talk) 19:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you: constructive and substantial edits in the recent times

Wrs1864: thanks you for your recent edits[2] to Application-level gateway. I followed other edits you have done lately related to networking domain. Pleased to see some constructive and substantial edits in the recent times. Raanoo 13:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I've been trying to clean up the whole IETF RFC stuff for a while now, and I think I am almost done. *whew*! It all started with cleaning up one link, and I kept finding more stuff to fix. Wrs1864 13:42, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

rDNS

Actually no, sir. You removed the wrong sentence. According to RFC1912 an IP-address can only resolve into ONE hostname (which is logical, since otherwise it wouldn't be resolving to a name at all). That was exactly my point: The RFC is this strict because it assures auth options, like whitelisting and such. Since only one name can resolve out of each IP-address, and unique IPv4 addresses are hard to come by these days, there is no way to keep combining the two. My statement was entirely correct, so I will reverse your stupid changes. 194.109.22.149 03:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Uh, I'm sorry, but I can find no where in RFC 1912 that says that there can be only one PTR record. I can also find documentation from the IETF that there can be multiple PTR records. Please document your claim that there can't be multiple PTR records. Wrs1864 13:22, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Wrs1864 on this point.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 06:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

internet marketing mess

I left you a message at my talk page. Cheers --roy<sac> ^Talk! .oOo. 06:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

host names vs. domain names

Hi Wayne, I feel that your edits to the DNS and hostname articles, while technically accurate, make these articles harder to understand. Particularly so, because your definition of "hostname" appears to partially contradict this definition and Wikipedia's own definition at hostname; you appear to define hostname as a type of FQDN. I have attempted to clarify what I think you meant. Please review my explanatory edit and correct it if necessary. Also, given that most users apparently define "host name" different than you, and given that this is Wikipedia (which has a popularity bias), I wonder if it wouldn't be wiser to yield and restate your point about the naming restrictions in a way that is not likely to cause confusion as per the above? I may not reply (timely), but in any case I would ask you if you could do a short edit of User talk:86.56.48.12 once you have responded here. (That would alert me to your response.) Thank you. 86.56.48.12 02:36, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Bounce message

Need to stop people abusing SMTP standards.

I have host several email domains, via a common SMTP firewall, this system has no knowledge of user names behind it? So the Fake Bounce method has no meaning, the Firewall could say OK to anything, but our basic policy is to refuse bounces due to most being BOGUS! Only a few known hosts are allowed to bounce! We feel rather than you promoting SPAM you should fight against it!

So signal that FAKE BOUNCES are not a good idea, and make system mail administration people the world over happy people!

Our module that deals with SPAM is a CPAN module, not at this date ready! even though we have withdrawn our commercial product, as we feel that effective SPAM protection should be available to all for FREE.

anti-spam@celmorlauren.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Celmorlauren (talk • contribs) 22:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

• I understand your frustration, but Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Do not accuse me of promoting spam. I have helped create free anti-spam systems that are designed to help reduce bogus bounces that are in use by folks like google, usbank, and microsoft. Wrs1864 22:30, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

All my edits have been removed

Just to note. I will note use Wiki again for any purpose, also I will recommend others to ignore it. As your system is so insecure and open to people who spoil everything they touch. (Including yourself) This message left in a last mode of desperation, wiki a good idea let down by sloppy development and administration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.176.153.184 (talk) 22:54, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Get a life

Get a life —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.3.109.107 (talk) 02:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

First off you dont even get paid to do this?

Whats the point of being stupid? you have no idea about what information you are deleting from the world. And as soon as i get enough money im going to buy wikipedia and shut it down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.3.109.107 (talk) 02:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Congrats on deleting this user's commercial spam, wrs1864. Just ignore this sort of comments --Enric Naval (talk) 18:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

link removal sms spoofing

Why do you keep removing the links to youspoof? The site has great information about the topics, has no ads and is certainly not spam. Please take a look at youspoof.info and I think you will agree. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.78.249 (talk) 21:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Before removing any of the links to youspoof.info, I looked at it. I have looked at it again now. I do not agree that it has lots of great info, it actually appears to have very little. Whether it has ads or not is irrelevant. Also, it appears that you are from south Salt Lake UT, and youspoof.info is registered to someone in the same area. Self-promotion and conflicts of interest are strongly discouraged on wikipedia. Wrs1864 (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

youspoof

I disagree with you. I think the site has lots of great data on several spoofing topics. I am not affiliate with the site. To that end I feel it inappropriate you are removing links to valid sites with good information. Will you at least put a few links to sites with spoofing information ??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.78.249 (talk) 22:25, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

E-mail

It was looking a little bare. 64 kB and only a tiny one paragraph four sentence introduction. And very little about the cost of spam in the article. 199.125.109.74 (talk) 22:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

My apologies

I will be sure to remove other links that I see as promotional as there are many on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loftenter (talk • contribs) 05:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Please do. There are many of them, but if people didn't continue to remove the links, wikipedia would be nearly useless. Wrs1864 (talk) 12:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Removal inappropriate

I am considering to restore your deletion to Escapement and also to add a section concerning escapements in pianos.

Escapement has meanings beyond clocks.

Perhaps the extensive clock info should be moved to "Escapement (clock)", and reduced in this article to a simple example?

I will await your comments.

Best wishes, Leonard G. (talk) 05:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think the current article on escapements is too clock-centric. That should be cleaned up. However, the subject of the article is what an escapement is and an overview of the different types of escapements. Escapements are used in many different things and a brief list of examples would be appropriate, but I as I said, long discussions on every use of escapements does not seem appropriate, just like every use of magnets are not discussed on the magnet article. Wrs1864 (talk) 12:17, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Dmoz

Hello. I see your vote at the Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_15#Template:Dmoz. I agree with you.

Best regards, nejron (talk) 11:54, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Siemens COM

Hey,

Why do you keep deleting our comments. Other companies like cisco also have product information on their wiki page...eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems#Partial_list_of_software_products —Preceding unsigned comment added by OpenCommunications (talk • contribs) 20:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Yes, it looks like cisco's page could be cleaned up a little also. Please take a a closer look at WP:CORP and WP:EL. Wikipedia articles are supposed to give information about the company, it is not supposed to be an advertising platform or used to promote one view or another. (See WP:SOAP). That other articles, such as cisco has problems too is a common argument and is covered by WP:OTHERSTUFF. It is the external links that are the real problem more than the subject matter of the products.

Also, please be aware of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If you are in any way associated with Seimens, you should probably not be editing articles that are closely related to them. If this company is notable, others will write stuff about it.

I hope this helps clear things up a little. Wrs1864 (talk) 20:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Your undos

Hi Wayne... it's been a long time.

After reviewing the policy, I understand your revisions.

Hi Greg. yes, it has been a long time

I think you are making assumptions about my feelings about the NAWCC and any chapters in it. Take a look at Special:Contributions/Wrs1864 and you will see that I regularly clean up external links as per WP:EL. Only a few days ago, I changed an external link on the dollar watch article from some watch dealer's website that showed two dollar (one might not even have been a dollar watch) and no explanations to the NAWCC museum. (See the diff.) I looked from Sam's website about dollar watches but I could not find it, it looks like he has taken it down.

Wikipedia has policies about how stuff should be written. One is that you are supposed to have a neutral point of view), another is that Wikipedia is not a directory. It would not be fair to all the other chapters if only a few are promoted in the NAWCC article.

bah, I see you updated the message as I wrote this, and so I'll stop the explanation here. Good luck with collecting watches, and I hope you work some more on wikipedia, the horology stuff is very lacking. Wrs1864 (talk) 01:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Reference to muegge.cc

I just googled "muegge.cc website translation" and I got several hundred hits, including from authotities such as xml.org, dmoz.org, multilingual.com. I think this is highly relevant information because as a developer, I'm constantly looking for sites that demonstrate best L10N practices. And this one is definitely one of the most inspiring websites. Or can you point me to one that not only shows that automatic website translation works, but also how to do it? So, please, do the L10N community a favor and leave this information in here. Autoterm (talk) 14:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Panerai

Please contribute to (or kick off) the discussion at Talk:Panerai. Thank you.

As it happens, I agree with your action (but am too busy to write another explanation any time very soon). However, while what you're opposing may well be wrong, it's not vandalism. So WP:3RR applies to all. -- Hoary (talk) 06:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I have put my thoughts on the talk page and sorry for not entering text in the revert to make sure it is clear that this wasn't vandalism. 14:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

You removed a number of "commercial" websites that use Spamassassin.. If your going to say "This isnt an index" then that entire group should have been removed. Why remove just some?.. MailLaunder is clearly the same thing that SpamMinder was, etc. I dont understand your justification here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.23.98 (talk) 00:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Open mail relay

You placed a {{POV}} tag on the Open mail relay, but the last dispute was a while ago. What POV problems do you see in the article? ffm 19:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, here you removed some content from the history section. Since this _is_ the history section, some repetition of information from other articles is acceptable, no? ffm 19:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

In my experience editing this article, there can often be a long lag between some of the editors reviewing and making changes. It doesn't seem to be a high priority. As such, I don't consider the last dispute to be "a while ago", but actually fairly recent. Hence, my readding of the POV tag. Mind you, I think most of the recent edits have improved the article and made it more neutral, but I suspect that Dean Anderson would still really object to it. I guess I'm trying hard to be neutral here.

Part of the reason why I'm trimming back the history section is that is not really needed to explain what open relays are. There is a huge amount of history that could be added. Dean likes to concentrate on particular parts of the history that have affected him and where he feels he has been wronged. I would rather not dig out the long email threads where Dean, Paul Vixie, and dozens of other players all debated what the "facts" were, who did what when and why, who is morally right, etc. Many of these participants feel that they were doing the "right" thing and strongly object to actions done by others.

I think we can reach an article that people consider more neutral by not opening various cans of worms. Especially ones that I doubt that the average reader of wikipedia is going to much care about.

Oh, I am still going through this article, I think there are some things that really don't stand up and need to be changed. Also some key points are left out about why spammers originally used open relays, and then why they stopped. If you could, give me a while to finish editing, and then hack on the things you think could be made better. Wrs1864 (talk) 19:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Can we continue this discussion here? It's an informal mediation process with a neutral editor. ffm 20:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, will do. Wrs1864 (talk) 20:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

So... is the article neutral enough now? ffm 20:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

In my opinion? yes. I really didn't think it was that bad before I added the PoV tag, I just knew that Dean wouldn't like it and would probably post again later (as he did). I did check after I didn my last round of edits, and I couldn't find anything in Dean's list of objections that still applied. Either the sections had been removed (as they weren't strictly about open relays anyway), or reworked. I didn't mean to try to get the last edit in or anything, please feel free to make any changes you think would improve the article, including any reverts of my edits. I strongly support the WP:OWNER policy. Wrs1864 (talk) 21:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

IEEE undo

You've undone an undo I made without first commenting on the talk page. Could you please explain what exactly is not good with the sentence you deleted, so we can alter it and make it acceptable to both of us? An undo war isn't going to do any good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joelthelion (talk • contribs) 17:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I thought it was pretty obvious from the edit comment I left. IEEE claiming they are important has a huge conflict of interest. Wrs1864 (talk) 19:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

BATV!=VERP

Hi Wrs, please see my comment on Talk:Signed_VERP.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/O.B. Macaroni

I added a reference to O.B. Macaroni. You might want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/O.B. Macaroni. --Eastmain (talk) 16:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

External links in Internationalized domain name article

User:Wrs1864 and User:Podzap, thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia and especially to the Internationalized domain name article. I noticed that you have been going back and forth, adding and removing a certain external link in that article. What often works well in such cases (as you of course well know) is to discuss the matter in the article's Talk page and arrive at a consensus. This is usually less frustrating than seeing edits get undone back and forth. I carved out a place at Talk:Internationalized domain name#External_links for that discussion. I'm posting this message at both your Talk pages, but please reply at the article's Talk section linked above. Thanks! --Jdlh | Talk 18:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of BGP (disambiguation)

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Stop removing links

You idiot!

Re: 217.184.142.38

So, why did you stop using omniplex? Wrs1864 (talk) 22:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

An admin deleted a bunch of GIFs I've created claiming that GIF is obsolete, that backwards compatibility ("visible with any browser") is irrelevant, and that important 20*20 pixel icons need better formats. Not following any deletion policy, of course. After that I had enough of the admin model here, randomized my passwords beyond recognition (here, meta, and mediazilla:), emptied my user pages (moving stuff around to a "hidden" subpage), and returned to IETF work. At the moment I abuse your "contributions" as watchlist... ;-) --217.184.142.38 (talk) 23:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, yeah, I seem to remember seeing something about those GIF's, but I didn't understand what exactly was going on and never looked into it closely. You always did a lot more with the core software of wikipedia than I have ever done. Feel free to edit User:Wrs1864/omniplex with links and use the "related changes" function to as a watch list. Wrs1864 (talk) 00:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but I don't intend to work "regularly" here again. Today I wanted to check that all RFC 3700 have been updated to RFC 5000, doing that I stumbled over your SMTP + IDN + DSN + TLD edits plus discussion with Harald, and that got me interested in what else is going on, including two merge proposals. Updating all 2821 to 2821bis and all 2822 to 2822upd everywhere (not limited to Wikipedia) will be great fun. BTW, I miss you on the openspf lists + pages. --217.184.142.38 (talk) 00:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Flamewars......

... first time I've seen "since the time of the MARID meltdown" called "forever"..... sometimes it feels like that.... :-) --Alvestrand (talk) 06:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea what you are talking about.... /me wanders off to read repressed memories.  ;-) Wrs1864 (talk) 12:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Private network

256 contiguous class Cs * 254 adress (192.168.x.0 and 192.168.x.255 is not adress) = 65,024, not 65,536 --Wyksztalcioch (talk) 14:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Whether 192.168.x.0 and 192.168.x.255 can be used as host addresses depend on the OS/IP stack. All IP stacks updated since the introduction of CIDR can use them. Wrs1864 (talk) 14:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

We talk about C class, when is defined in RFC with 24 CIDR. In Wikipedia write: "In classful addressing (now obsolete with the advent of CIDR), there are only three possible subnet masks: Class A, 255.0.0.0 or /8; Class B, 255.255.0.0 or /16; and Class C, 255.255.255.0 or /24". In this case 192.168.x.255 or .0 can't by used as host —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyksztalcioch (talk • contribs) 14:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

But, as mentioned in the text you quoted, classful networks are obsoleted by Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR). Since the mid 1990s, you have been able to use, for example, 192.168.x.255 for a host computer. There probably are still some systems that either have bugs are haven't been updated, but they are rare. Wrs1864 (talk) 15:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Please, give me one example adress with .255 (IP adress, netmask, gateway) in last octet, whenwhich is in C class --Wyksztalcioch (talk) 15:32, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I quickly found 206.223.213.255 being used by dsl-dhcp-213-255.kpunet.net. This IP address is in the "class C" space since the first three bits of 206 are 110 (that is, it is in the range of 192-239). If I looked harder, I'm sure I could find you a website in active use that was in the class C space with the bottom quad being 255. Wrs1864 (talk) 15:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

In RFC 791 write: "in class c, the high order three bits are one-one-zero, the next 21 bits are the network and the last 8 bits are the local address." If this adress is normal IP adress, and "three bits are one-one-zero, the next 21 bits are the network", what is broadcast? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyksztalcioch (talk • contribs) 15:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

(<-) The discussions about classes in RFC 791 (1981) were changed by RFC 1338 (1992), which was in turn obsoleted by RFC 1519 (1993), which was obsoleted by RFC 4632 (2006). Things change over time. There no longer is a fixed number of bits for the network. Please read the Classless Inter-Domain Routing as mentioned above. Wrs1864 (talk) 16:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Did you read all of this RFC? --Wyksztalcioch (talk) 17:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

RFC 4632 (newest):

• Class C (MSB '110'), and 2097152 possible networks each and 254 end systems (256 bit combinations minus the reserved all-zeros and all-ones patterns).
• For example, the legacy "Class B" network 172.16.0.0, with an implied network mask of 255.255.0.0, is defined as the prefix 172.16.0.0/16, the "/16" indicating that the mask to extract the network portion of the prefix is a 32-bit value where the most significant 16 bits are ones and the least significant 16 bits are zeros. Similarly, the legacy "Class C" network number 192.168.99.0 is defined as the prefix 192.168.99.0/24; the most significant 24 bits are ones and the least significant 8 bits are zeros.
• n.n.n.0/24 256 16777216 legacy "Class C"
• This is equivalent in size to a block of 2048 legacy "Class C" network numbers (or /24s)

In all of this quotes C class have netmask 24--Wyksztalcioch (talk) 21:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

yes, a "class C" is equivalent to a /24 and you will frequently see people use them interchangeably. I'm not sure what you are trying to say or ask of me. If you mean that everything in the old "class C" space has to be allocated in /24's, that is clearly wrong as explained in the RFC. I don't know what else to say. The end result is still that 192.160.0.0/16 has 2^16 IP addresses, of which, 2^16-2 could be hosts if you dont' subnet it. Or, if you subnet that, you could have 2^14 networks of /30's with only 2^14 hosts, or you could subnet it different ways and have many other combinations. That's the whole point of CIDR, is you get flexibility. Wrs1864 (talk) 23:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I say only, 206.223.213.255/16 isn't in class C (you say "class C" is equivalent to a /24), and 206.223.213.255/24 is a broadcast. C class must have 254 IP adress, and is 256 subnet privat network in C class so i think should been ,65024 not 65,536. I pleasa, revert your revert ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyksztalcioch (talk • contribs) 09:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I'm clearly not doing a good job of explaining things to you, I think you need to find someone else to help you. The 16-bit blocks that you changed have 2^16 IP addresses, so I will not restore your edits. Wrs1864 (talk) 11:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I have a Question

Hello, I recently tried to add a link to our companies website that is related to your article Email Privacy but it didn't seem to stick.

Since I am new to contributing to wikipedia, I was not sure if it is something you have to approve or add yourself.

Our site is http://www.privacyharbor.com and we have free resources, tools and information about email privacy as well as private email services that are extremely affordable (although our primary focus is education).

If it is a case of approval could you please add the link and as soon as we have our own wikipedia page I'll update you with the internal link.

Thanks,

Sean privacyharbor.com

Privacyharbor (talk) 18:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I reviewed the link you placed on e-mail privacy and found that it did not qualify under the wikipedia rules for external links (see WP:EL in general and in particular, WP:LINKSPAM). Also please be aware of the wikipedia policy on conflicts of interest (see WP:COI). It would be best for you to not add links to your own website, nor encourage others to do so on your behave. Rather let others add them if they think it is appropriate. One further note, the e-mail privacy article is not mine, wikipedia has strict rules against considering any article to be under anyone individual's control (see WP:OWNER). Many others have contributed to the article and will review any changes I make. Wrs1864 (talk)

AfD nomination of Integration of anti-spam techniques into MTAs

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YOUR PLATO COMMENTS

You may want to withdraw your comments on the PLATO page in response to my comments.

I'll give you a couple of days then I plan to reorganize my comments between the raster/vector section and the plasma section.

plasma panel

(Don Bitzer held the patent on the panel.)

The plasma panel was NOT raster driven. Raster refers to the beam which sweeps back and forth in a raster pattern.

I've seem the actual schematic of the panel. There were 512 wires in both the X and Y direction. In addition there was a bias condition sent to all the pixels which was enough to keep them on, once turned on, but not enough to toggle them. To turn on a pixel, a specially shaped pulse was sent to one of the X wires and one of the Y wires. Individually each of the pulses was not strong enough to "turn on" the pixel. Taken together, they put the pixel at their intersection above the toggle threshold and it then remained on because of its binary stable state. The same method was used to turn them off.

There was actually some work at Xerox using the screen as its own shift register. A cyclic, phased set of signals were sent to either the X or Y wires in such a way that the adjacent pixels would "steal" the state of the pixel next to it so that a graphic pattern could be moved around on the display.

This could be done so fast that frames could be shifted on and off of the screen. In this way the screen could be animated. At Xerox there was a "Denny, the Dinosaur" graphic application that could be dynamically manipulated in time. Using this method, "Denny" could "talk" to the user.

ASCII

Many of the modems of the day followed the common half-duplex, full-duplex which encoded or decoded ASCII data. In contrast, PLATO used its own custom format which was different in nature. The phone lines used with PLATO had to be specially dedicated, phased matched lines in order to work with PLATO. There was no such thing as dialing up and synchronizing as did most of the modems of the day. Without any sychronization, a tape recorder could be hooked to the phone line from the cyber and put into record mode. If the recording was then properly hooked to a PLATO machine and played back, the graphics would immediately displayed on the PLATO screen, without the necessity of syncronizing handshakes to establish communication.

Other systems of transmission did not have some of the characteristics of PLATO transmission. All key presses on a PLATO terminal went to the Cyber Mainframe before being displayed on the PLATO screen. Each key press was independently submitted as a job on the Cyber job que and then processed by the Cyber and then returned and displayed by the terminal. The guaranteed echo response time from the time someone pressed a key on the terminal until the time the calculated result was displayed on the terminal screen was 1/4 of a second, end to end, from the terminal to the Cyber and back to the terminal. As the key press traveled down the line, additional address information was added along the way in order to be able to route it back. Even voice information was sent to the Cyber as key presses. In fact, it was possible to multiplex 4 voices on a single voice line. This work was done by Jim Parry whom I worked for when I managed the U of A site. He used a little black box which used hardware FFTs to convert voice into frequency, applitude values which were then digitally encoded as keypresses.

Font

I had not thought about the line fonts for a long time. They were mainly used for resized fonts when you wanted bigger text. But the main type font were customizable bit maps which were stored in the terminal. This was true of the Plasma Panel as well as the CDC CRT displays. Fonts were initially down loaded to the terminal before the font was displayed and then locally displayed as many times as needed using digital control from the main frame. Fonts could be combined into a picture, so that one could use a large number of font characters in space filling pattern with the exact pixels turned on in the pattern to display the picture you wanted. People even designed dithered pictures out of special custom fonts for the various combination of shade.

my PLATO Background

I logged over 10,000 hours on the CERL system in work and play. I managed a 16 terminal site at the U of A for a year as a student. Later I worked full time for CDC as a PLATO programmer. I also installed PLATO terminals for CDC including among others, 40 terminals at the Berkley Lawrence Hall of Science.

In the 1970s, I made a 3 month trip clear across and around the United States using the PLATO network on about 40 University sites around the country. Except for 2 nights I stayed in a motel, the rest of the time I stayed with people I had met on the system. I just found a PLATO terminal and "radioed" ahead to the next stop for a place to stay. I started in Arizona, went up the California coast to Washington State, across to Indiana and Chicago and then to CERL. I went up to New York and back to CERL. I traveled south the Tennessee back through Pennsylvania and then back to Arizona.

HonestGent (talk) 23:52, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I'll keep my comments here short.

First, please read the raster graphics and Raster scan articles. The plasma panels were certainly raster graphics, but you are correct that they did not use scan line technology.

Second, again, ASCII is a data representation. You appear to be mixing up ASCII with other parts of the transmission protocol. While it wouldn't surprise me if no other computer system used quite the same combination of lower-level data communication features, things like having characters be sent to the main computer and processed before one (or more) characters would be sent back in response was not unique to PLATO, systems such as Unix did similar things.

Lastly, please be aware of the Wikipedia:No original research policy. This is actually a huge problem with the PLATO article. Just being there and having seen it is not enough to qualify to be included in the wikipedia, that would be "original research". Instead, you need to find Wikipedia:Reliable sources to back everything up.Wrs1864 (talk) 22:32, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Sender ID

Hello. Citations are not optional at Wikipedia - please see Verifiability, Inserting a reference. Are you maybe getting confused between the different styles of referencing, which would make any one particular section heading for a given style optional? Sender ID however has NO referencing of any type, and therefore fails the verifiability test. Socrates2008 (Talk) 12:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Indeed citations and references that are verifiable are needed, and they are provided in the sender id article via the RFCs, however having a formal reference section is not required. Wikipedia does not have a strict standardized method of citing references. Feel free to restructure the article into a more professional/formal manor. Wrs1864 (talk) 18:41, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll add this: One of the problems with using RFCs, is the lack of a {{cite RFC}} template. See Talk:Request_for_Comments#IETF_RFC_handling_in_Wikipedia.3B_best_way_to_cite for some discussion on this. Wrs1864 (talk) 19:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Wow, talk about a can of worms - didn't realise that the RFC's were being autolinked by Wikipedia, as they appear in the article as bare references. Socrates2008 (Talk) 07:12, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, very much a can of worms. Early on, wikipedia was very biased toward computers and technology and RFCs were so critical of a reference that they were automated. As wikipedia has become broader, the references tools for other things have become much better and RFCs are stuck in the stone age. Like almost all articles, Sender ID could certainly be improved, but it has most of the references it needs. Wrs1864 (talk) 10:34, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Open Directory Project (DMOZ) Links

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Watchmaker revision

Hi,

Thanks. This edit neatly resolves the issue. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 01:09, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

remove, uh, "exaggerated" claims about a non-notable product Undid revision 258337746 by 88.159.208.189

Sorry, but it is not exaggerated. It is the reality. Would be nice if you put the information back. Or do you have prove that it is otherwise.

M. van Bezouw m.bezouw@xtome.com www.xtome.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.208.189 (talk) 16:59, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Such Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. You need to find WP:reliable sources, independent from you, backing up those claims. Also, be aware of wikipedia's policy on WP:conflict of interest, you should not be adding anything about your product to wikipedia. Don't worry, if your product is close to being as good as it is claimed, your success will grow and there will be many others that verify your claims and add stuff to wikipedia about it. Granted, I've seen other systems that are almost identical (including the "new" features of yours) that have failed, but who knows? Maybe they failed for other reasons. Wrs1864 (talk) 17:09, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: email spam break : OK

Hi Wrs1864. I answered on my talk page.Almeo (talk) 00:01, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

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Border Gateway Protocol

Like you said, this is out of your area of expertise, but not mine, the paragraph, is under the section 'Routing table growth', which talks about the routing table. Blackholing has nothing to do with the state of the global routing table.

The paragraph tries to talk about improving aggregation. If the words 'black hole' was replaced with summarisation, it would almost be right.

Rewrite:-

Route summarisation is often used to improve aggregation of the BGP global routing table, therefore letting the routers of an AS to have a smaller version of the table. Consider AS1 has been allocated the big address space of 172.16.0.0/16, this would be counted as one route in the table, but due customer requirement or traffic engineering purposes, AS1 wants to announce smaller, more specific routes of 172.16.0.0/18, 172.16.64.0/18 and 172.16.128.0/18, the prefix of 172.16.192.0/18 does not have any hosts, and AS1 does not announce a specific route 172.16.192.0/18. That would count as AS1 announcing four routes.

AS2 will see the 4 routes from AS1 172.16.0.0/16 and (172.16.0.0/18, 172.16.64.0/18 and 172.16.128.0/18) it is up to the routing policy of AS2 to decide whether or not to take a copy of the four routes or as 172.16.0.0/16 overlaps all the other specific routes, to just store the summary, 172.16.0.0/16.

If AS2 wants to send data to prefix 172.16.192.0/18, it will be sent to the routers of AS1 on route 172.16.0.0/16, at AS1's router, it will either be dropped or a unreachable be sent back, depending on the configuration of AS1's routers.

If AS1 later decides to drop the route 172.16.0.0/16, leaving 172.16.0.0/18, 172.16.64.0/18 and 172.16.128.0/18, AS1 will drop the amount of routes it announces to three. AS2 will see the three routes, and depending on the routing policy of AS2, it can store a copy of the three routes, or aggregate the prefix's 172.16.0.0/18 and 172.16.64.0/18 to 172.16.0.0/17. There by saving the amount of routes AS2 stores to 172.16.0.0/17 and 172.16.128.0/18, only two.

If AS2 wants to send data to prefix 172.16.192.0/18, it will be dropped or a unreachable be sent back at the routers of AS2, because 172.16.192.0/18 would not be in the routing table.

If you need a citation for any of this, please refer to the god that is Iljitsch van Beijnum http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/bgp_ch06/index4.html

Igxx (talk) 02:53, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I understand the reason for summarizing, but the talk page discussion seems to also mention that you want to blackhole the unallocated routes to prevent ICMP packets flying back and also that you really don't want your upstream have to deal with the summarization unless one of those announcements are for multi-homing and such. Anyway, I'm not going to touch it, I'll let others argue over it. Your first edit didn't give a reason for the deletion and it appeared that you didn't notice the long discussion on the talk page. Wrs1864 (talk) 03:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

i dont understand i was making valuable contribution by deleting the bits whihch i felt were irrelevant it was only 2 line —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.3.115.151 (talk) 21:07, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

anon remailer deletions

W, The deletions you made (and have remade) include actual content, not merely a link farm. If you object so strongly to the links, I would suggest removing them, not the entire section which was deleted. Or changing them to some non objectionable form. The reference to statistical sites has real value to a Reader, given the here again, gone again of many remailers. Comment? ww (talk) 21:41, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

built-in RFC linking

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Post_Office_Protocol&action=history: (rv - no reason not to use built-in RFC linking, it goes to a better format anyway)

The reason is that those links are not working! A working link is surely superior than a better formatted link. :) --Knakts (talk) 14:07, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

OK, sorry: the page didn't open (server for the domain name (tools.ietf.org) could not be found), but now I tested again and it works. --Knakts (talk) 14:11, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Interlang and category links in templates

Hi,

Regarding these edits; the links in question do indeed belong on the /doc page, not on the template itself. Some bots accidentally add them in the wrong place, but that's a bug with the bots. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I assumed the bots knew more about the wikipedia policies than I did, and I had searched for this information and couldn't find anything about it. I really don't see strong arguments for one place over the other, but I could easily be missing something.

Speaking of stuff I'm not certain about, is there any reason not to update the Simple English wiki with the current template? Wrs1864 (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

The main argument for putting them on the doc page is that this allows users to continue to update them at will if the main template is fully-protected, which is commonplace on widely-used templates. The only reason I can think not to keep the template on Simple synced with this one is that it might not have articles for all of the links yet. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 20:05, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

User notice: temporary 3RR block

Regarding reversions[3] made on February 22 2009 to Callback verification

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The duration of the block is 12 hours. William M. Connolley (talk) 21:48, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

About webmail

Hello,

I agree on "webmail" (generic term) entry but not on "Comparison of webmail providers". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.163.181.90 (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

All these links that you have re-added are in violation of WP:EL. Wrs1864 (talk) 19:05, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Blocking threats

I have been given numerous threats for vandalising wikipedia pages. I should not be banned from editing as after a few minutes of editing the page it reverts to its normal writing. I have not made editing racist or discriminative so i would like to urge you to stop sending these messages thankyou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.97.199.238 (talk) 12:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I have reviewed a few of your warnings, they seem to be appropriate to me, as per WP:VANDALISM. Wrs1864 (talk) 13:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

callback verification

There's no point in editing this article so long as Marc can put it back to support his filtering business.

He surely does not think that he is biased, but he is surely mistaken.John L (talk) 20:22, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

webmail

Why undid my contribution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Juanpablosoto (talk • contribs) 21:17, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi! the reason why I removed the links was mentioned in the edit summary, they violate WP:EL. Basically wikipedia is supposed to avoid having external links except in certain cases. See WP:NOTDIRECTORY also. It is tempting in articles like webmail to add one or two examples, but then more people try to push in their pet project or the system they use and it eventually ends up with long lists that clutter the article. It is better to have those lists in places like the existing articles in the see also section, such as Comparison of webmail providers, Comparison of e-mail clients, etc. or placed in categories such as the existing Category:E-mail clients. Wrs1864 (talk)

Request for advice

It's my turn to ask for advice. What do you think about Route analytics article? I'd like to tag it somehow to alert for better content creation, because it seems a lot of marketing language or promotion without real information, but I am not sure it should be 'censored' on those grounds alone. Kbrose (talk) 15:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

I tagged the article, and left a reply on its talk page. I do not know enough about this subject to improve the article, but it could use some work. Wrs1864 (talk) 17:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

CIDR tidbits in IP address

You wrote: "CIDR was introduced in RFC 1338 and RFC 1519 is obsolete" In fact, RFC 1338 only discussed possible future changes and set the stage, but it was NOT the introduction of CIDR, it was an informational RFC. 1519 made it the standard, and despite being superseded now, it is proper to quote it in that context. An article should provide some historical perspective in addition to current state, particularly in this arena, where the technology and terms changed so rapidly at the time. Kbrose (talk) 16:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I thought about leaving you a note explaining stuff in more detail. You are right, and I knew this stuff, but couldn't fit it into a small edit summary. It is my opinion that adding the RFCs doesn't add much to the IP address article, the details of how CIDR evolved I think are best left to the CIDR article. Again, in my opinion, the IP address article is already kind of long. Right above the stuff I cut out, there is a similar blurb about how the details of classful and supernetworks can be found in their respective articles. I'm not going to push to keep the RFCs out, if you really think they are best there, go ahead and revert again. Wrs1864 (talk) 16:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, I think the RFCs are the best references we can provide, before other people introduce a lot of opinionated interpretations, like text books often. Referring to other articles I find ok, but we should remember WP is not a book with a coherent outline or agenda, so duplication between articles should occur to give best perspective in each. Yes, the IP address article is long, and I think we should discuss strategies to shorten it, but I think, not at the expense of sufficient detail in discussion of topics included. Perhaps we should think about delegating the IPv4 and IPv6 stuff entirely to the respective articles and focus in the common aspect better and in more detail. I don't want to just revert you, perhaps we can think about this and see how to provide historical perspective better too, and perhaps revise the entire section, just reverting it won't make it necessarily better either. Kbrose (talk) 17:09, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

To me, it is a matter of degree, but I find that most articles have way too much redundancy. I go to an article to find out what time it is, and it tells me how to build a watch, the history of timekeeping systems, how the 24 clock is part of evil western imperialism, etc. If I want to learn about related articles, I find it easy to click links (wikipedia isn't a book), but hard to skip past semi-off-topic gunk. I also find that when I fix a mistake in one article, I have to go around to all the other relates articles to fix them too. With respect to the CIDR stuff, I found the sentence to not be entirely accurate, and adding enough text to make it accurate would have, in my opinion, been worse than shortening it up. Again, I'm not stuck on this edit at all, it was just me chasing down obsolete references to RFC 1519. Wrs1864 (talk) 19:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Enigform/mod_openpgp

I see you reverted a change I made to Pretty Good Privacy concerning enigform and mod_openpgp. If you think there is a place on the page where these two modules should be mentioned, why not put the information there yourself? I do not see much value in returning misleading information to the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reskusic (talk • contribs) 16:01, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

It was easiest to revert and I'm working on some other stuff right now and didn't want to get too distracted. I felt that slightly misleading information was better than lost information. Wrs1864 (talk) 16:22, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

List of watch manufacturers

"(there is no real distinction between a "watchmaker" and a "watch brand", at least in practice"

From wiki: "A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches." / "A brand is a collection of experiences and associations connected with a service, a person or any other entity." It's a bright line legal distinction. My corrections made the list of watch manufacturers page clearer and more complete. Also there is no reason red links shouldn't be included. Alain Silberstein, Anonimo, Bathys, Eberhardt & Co., Martin Braun, Minerva, RGM, Stowa, don't have wiki pages, but are without question notable watches. This isn't Everything2 where all links must be self-referential. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cainxinth (talk • contribs) 22:22, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for taking so long to get back to wikipedia. I'm not sure that this discussion is best on my talk page rather than the article's talk page, but I'll reply here for now. The article is "list of watch manufactures", not "brands" or "watchmakers". I guess I could see new lists created. The history of watches goes back a *LONG* ways. Watchmakers using their name as their "brand" when manufacturing watches was the standard thing to do for a couple hundred years. Most of the articles for the "watchmakers" cover both the person and the business they made. As far as the red links, that was kind of the fall out of the AfD discussion. I could spend 15 minutes and add about 300 names of watch brands as red links, thousands more could be added with some effort. Trying to decide which red links are really notable is hard, it is much easier to see which watch manufactures have articles. Ones with articles are supposed to be notable and show that, if they aren't they get deleted. Wrs1864 (talk) 18:11, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

ApplianSys

Do you think ApplianSys is notable for WP inclusion? Likewise the corresponding expansion of Comparison of DNS server software? It would appear to me that this is merely a repackaging of another DNS server. Thanks. Kbrose (talk) 13:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Gah, I cringed when I saw that also, but closed my eyes and went on... Um, upon review, I don't think the wikipedia article currently qualifies under WP:CORP as all the references are things like press releases, references to their own website/whitepapers, blog comments, etc. I haven't googled them to see if they would qualify if the article was correctly written. I guess depending on what google shows, I would either tag it with a {{notibility}} or prod it. Wrs1864 (talk) 14:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I've added better references to the ApplianSys article including published IDC and Forrester reearch papers. I believe that it does qualify under WP:CORP. I added DNSBOX to the Comparison of DNS server software article as it currently lists Secure64, which is based on NSD (ref) and also only offered commercially as an appliance. DNSBOX uses a modified version of Nixu Namesurfer (DNS server written from scratch), that has been around almost a decade and repackaged into products by Nokia and F5. Bind does run on the same box separately as a security wrapper only. Steventee (talk) 14:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

tnx on dkim

Thanks for the feedback and guidance on the DKIM article modifications. One of the reasons I choose such boring login names is to make sure no one thinks I'm hiding anything... /d —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davecrocker (talk • contribs) 14:20, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Modifications to 'email' article

I seem to have gotten into an undo war about the modifications I made to the first paragraph of the article on email. If you are so inclined, it might be worth your taking a look at the mods and my explanation for them, under the discussion tab.

Thanks.

Davecrocker (talk) 20:01, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:Watchmakers

Please see here that I undid your addition of {{Fact}} and {{Original research}} tags. Please see the edit summary for the argument. It is just that tagging category pages like this is a little unusual, and the alternatives I mentioned in the edit summary will help attaining a solution quicker. Debresser (talk) 15:53, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

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