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[Zapmeister]

Personally I was impressed that the issue was resolved in an hour's time at what must've been an inconvenient hour Illwinter-time.

Certainly. However, the fact that it happened at all must have been a major embarrassment. Checking that a connection has succeeded and taking appropriate action (allowing access, in this case) if it hasn't, is fundamental functionality in any application that does network communications.

EDIT: Hmmm, simply allowing access may be too exploitable.

[ April 19, 2004, 03:12: Message edited by: Zapmeister ]