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What’s the significance of posting this here 3 years later? What did user “fanf2” or the people upvoting the submission found interesting about the blog post?
by guessmyname 2y ago
What’s the significance of posting this here 3 years later? What did user “fanf2” or the people upvoting the submission found interesting about the blog post?
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoThe submitter is posting a lot, https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=fanf2 https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=fanf2. Their 'about' suggests they're a hostmaster@ and postmaster@ at cam.ac.uk are two of their email addresses; which seems doubtful (that's an understatement). I checked a few stories they submitted and some were new, some were reposts of relatively highly scoring stories from a few years ago. Shenanigans? Looks like it might be a slightly obfuscated spamming to boost an account so it can be used for promotion/advertising. Might be wrong.
- mokanfar 2y agokarma-farmer
- mkj 2y agoI think it really is Tony Finch.
- aardvark179 2y agoTony worked for years on email and DNS things at Cambridge, and now works for ISC on DNS stuff. He doesn’t post here (or anywhere else) for promotion or advertising, but he has run a link blog of anything he thinks looks interesting for decades and has a workflow for it that posts to mastodon and other places.
- defrost 2y agoSomebody has to keep things tidy at cam.ac.uk .. and that's Tony: https://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sssogadr/afp/dwcon02/m042_keep-mordor-tidy.jpg https://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sssogadr/afp/dwcon02/m042_ke... * Given someone has the job, can they not submit stuff that crosses their desk also? ( * It puTTY's the ring in the fire: https://tartarus.org/~simon/things/kmt.png https://tartarus.org/~simon/things/kmt.png )