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I just tried the address http://ota.iambic.com:17/ in Internet Explorer (v 7.0) and it forwarded me to the main iambic site. Should this information be removed? Robferrer 11:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Nardman1 13:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For Internet Explorer 6.0 http://ota.iambic.com:17/ works. Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.1 cannot handle this. Normally that does not make sense because the protocols don't match. The correct browser syntax would be "qotd://ota.iambic.com". It's just an interesting behaviour of IE6 that shows that this browser trys to handle all kind of data / communication even if it does not understand what's going on. ~ Steffen 13:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I still have IE 6 (fully patched) on my computer and I cannot reproduce this result. Nor can I reproduce it by modifying Firefox to allow port 17. Nardman1 19:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tried accessing the HTTP site through IE 6 & 7, Firefox 3, and through the telnet link. Nothing worked. Removed.136.229.5.43 (talk) 14:07, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's also a Quote of the Day on the main page of Wikiquote: q:Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day. --Max 08:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article refers to the internet protocol as opposed to a general, quote of the day service. That isn't to say that wikiquote isn't similar, but it does not use the protocol as best I can tell.--CannedhamX (talk) 14:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The wikipage mentions, quotes4all.net (tcp, udp) - Serves the quotes of the site. Is this a valid example for QOTD or is it commercial site link added in the wikipedia article.(in which case, it is vandalism).

Phoe6 (talk) 09:41, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is a valid example of a QOTD, if you run telnet quotes4all.net 17 via command line it will return a quote from the server. I'll change it to behave more like the link above it, providing a link to the HTTP site as well as a link to the telnet version, thus alleviating confusion.--CannedhamX (talk) 14:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As of this writing (March 2011), quotes4all.net does not seem to be operating a quote service on port 17 (or if it is, then my ISP is blocking me). quotes4all.net currently resolves to 88.198.58.149.