[ale] fetchmail site weirdness

[Jason Day]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:48:37AM -0500, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 11:54 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Why is it that when I try to go to http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail
> > I keep getting #%$*%#$%^$ sent somewhere else?!?! www.eff.org,
> > linux.com, debian.org, fsf.org, and others. If I keep clicking the link
> > that says it goes to the fetchmail site home page (the status bar says
> > tuxedo.org) I never get to that site.
> 
> That *is* weird.  I get it, too.
> 
> It looks like the whole www.tuxedo.org site is down.  It is responding with 
> a "302 Moved Temporarily" response and then the redirect.  Either Eric 
> himself took it down, or some cracker with a sense of humor has gotten to 
> him.

My vote is the latter:

jday:jday$ telnet tuxedo.org 80
Trying 66.92.236.83...
Connected to dsl092-236-083.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net.
Escape character is '^]'.


I find it hard to believe that the tuxedo.org domain is really a
speakeasy DSL account.

Jason
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