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Sure it wasn't a weird grazing ritual? A cron script would've replaced you doing that, more efficiently and reliably.

When I did military service abroad, the new chefs rotating down was put on "sandwich alert" in which anyone on camp signal centers could call in the middle of the night, requesting a nice sandwich delivered. It was all fun and games, they were shortly let in on the thing and we all laughed at it afterwards. No-one abused it.

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Naw, I used to party with the founder. It got wild.

The problem back then in 2004-2005 was that his DSL could give him a new IP lease anytime so it couldn't really be automated away without having a dyndns script running on his computer, which would never work.

> No-one abused it.

Honest question: how can you be 100% sure?

Well I can't really, just hearsay. We were just a battalion and most were out on diverse smaller camps or manning checkpoints and the like, so we weren't that many that even could abuse it. And, it's a kind of abuse in essence really, so we can probably reverse my statement.

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