Posted by Neredbojias on 05/19/06 03:05

To further the education of mankind, "Jonathan N. Little"
<lws4art@centralva.net> vouchsafed:

>> I never heard of an Ibizan dog before. With those ears, they could
>> almost pass for Australian rabbits.
>
> Not surprising, they are a rare breed, < 100 registered with the AKC
> each year. They are basically a rabbit dog, for hunting without a gun
> in rocky, hilly, scrubby land of the Belaric Islands off of Spain.
> Catch and retrieve prey--many times live. I've got a picture around
> here somewhere of one of ours bringing a *live* young wild turkey to
> the house. Caused a little pandemonium in the living room!

Wow, that is rare. I used to, uh, help raise chihuahuas when they were
considered semi-rare. (-Don't ask...)

One time in college I went out on a buddy's dad's farm before Thankgiving
to "gather" turkeys for the holiday. Yeah, right... A suit of armor
wouldn't have been too much protection.

> Everything was fine until they 'upgraded' their servers about 2 years
> ago (major expansion?). They now have some strange config where the
> static content is handled by one set of servers and dynamic on others.
> The result reared its ugly head when my 404 handling script failed.
> Redirects cannot be done without a full URL so that a dynamic URL
> rewritten to appear as a static URL will not work, the real dynamic
> one will always appear in the address bar. Kinda blows with current
> trends to interface with a MySQL database! SO I am hosting hunting...

The worst part about the whole thing from my point of view is I only
vaguely understand it... I kinda get the dynamic vs. static thing but
not the "...dynamic URL rewritten to appear as static..." This could be
because my brain is dynamic except when it gets a lot of static.

>> On my server, I can't send formmail "from" anybody but myself!
>> (Probably because it's one of those servers which do require
>> authorization for "from" mail.) Not the greatest...
>>
>
> Wow, yeah that sucks. Can you at least set the 'Reply To:' in the
> header
> to the original sender's address?

Sure. Sending "to" is no prob. They apparently just don't want just
anybody using their facilities to transmit mail. I understand the pov,
but it should be allowed under the auspices of the subscriber, as in
formmail, which always goes to the same party, anyway.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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