Actually, the best protocol for that is qotd as described in RFC 865. (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc865.html)
For those on Windows platforms, this is supported via the Simple TCP services. The file used is %systemroot\system32\drivers\etc\quotes Aldon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Drumm Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [developers] Dean quotes Here is a quick thing which will impress future site admins. Get a bunch of Dean quotes, put them in a fortune file and have a random quote. Of course this won't work on Windows servers so you could make it database driven. And having said this on this list I'm sure someone will say "we can use RSS..." -Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: ndrumm3 http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ndrumm
