Posted by George Hester on 10/10/05 17:30

"-Angela-" <TarapiaTapioco@jetmail.com> wrote in message
news:am6kk194i7go4vnc7qrvq5uq0ouj2o1ud6@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:53:34 -0300, speeder <no.spam@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:33:33 -0700, -Angela-
> ><TarapiaTapioco@jetmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>Yes, George. But it's used when, as you say, you fire up the client and
> >>>connect. What Finntroll is saying is that he could theoretically enter
any
> >>>offending IP's into his Hosts file and presumably redirect them to
127.0.0.1
> >>>(the localhost) so that the next time he connects THEY wouldn't be able
to.
> >>>To be honest, he'd be better off using PeerGuardian, or entering them
> >>>directly into his firewall. Of course, there's always anti-leeching
tools.
> >>>Hi, George!
> >>>
> >>
> >>You're not so terrible Hammerer !! This is a post for the record,
> >>one to write home about, no, one to *call* home about !! Yes! that's
> >>what I did. What?-- *You* giving a senseable, straight-forward,
> >>'might just be right' reply??? and even to George Hester !! I
> >>thought he was your favorite person to mis-lead down the stairway of
> >>doom. Your reputation is on the line here now I guess you know. I
> >>have been lurking here for a spell and this just shocked the shite out
> >>of me. Come clean- you're *really* a nice guy aren't you? Forget
> >>it, you'd never admit to that eh? ;o)
> >
> >I hate to shock the shite out of you Angela (again), but Hammerer is
> >wrong...
>
> No way! It couldn't be. He even said "Hi" to George !
> Explain yourself.
> >
> >The hosts file (or HOSTS, as George puts it) is only for domain name
> >lookups and will not work the way Hammerer described by putting IPs
> >directly into it (if the comp knows the IP it doesn't have to lookup
> >anything, now does it?).
>
> Good point.
> >
> >As much as Hammerer might have tried to help, his neurons simply over
> >struggled him and and rendered him incapable of such act. Maybe it's a
> >DNA thing. You see, he simply can not be "senseable, straight-forward,
> >might-just-be-right" kinda guy. And specially not to George.
>
> Why? Is George really gullable or something?
> >
> >I guess your reputation is right where we would expect it, right
> >Hammerer?
>
> Ahhh... so there *is* a catch! Here I thought Hammerer was losing
> control, but now I see he wasn't just leading George down the stairway
> of doom, he was *kicking* him down the stairs eh?
> George, are you alright down there?? (My it's dark!)

Sure come join me -Angela-.

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George Hester
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