Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:59:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:59:27 -0500 Received: from dsl-64-34-35-93.telocity.com ([64.34.35.93]:11538 "EHLO roo.rogueind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:59:18 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:56:43 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Diehl To: Thomas Molina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Invalid @home email addresses In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > On 1 March 02 cox@home switched their services from infrastructure hosted > on hardware by Excite to "native" hardware. All @home.com addresses are > now invalid. Grepping through the source for these invalid addresses > produced the following: > > drivers/net/de4x5.c mmporter@home.com > drivers/scsi/megaraid.c johnsom@home.com > drivers/scsi/ppa.h johncavan@home.com > drivers/scsi/imm.h johncavan@home.com > drivers/sound/aci.c pellicci@home.com > drivers/media/video/bttv-cards.c daniel.herrington@home.com > > Most addresses for home.com users simply switched to cox.net addresses. /s/cox.net/your_local_cable_provider.whatever. > However, email to the above users at cox.net bounced in four out of five > cases. I am posting here in hopes that theses users are still on the > mailing list and will respond. If no response is received I would like to > submit a patch adding comments to the source code indicating the addresses > are no longer valid and no new email addresses are known. Cox cable switched to cox.net. Comcast switched to comcast.net and so forth. Unless you know that persons local cable provider there is no way to know their new address without input from them or someone that knows them. Excite was responsible for ALL of the @home addresses for the various MSO's that had contracts with them. HTH, -- ......Tom CLUELESSNESS: There Are No Stupid Questions, But tdiehl@rogueind.com There Are LOTS of Inquisitive Idiots. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/