[25931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN whois (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesse Schachter)
Tue Nov 23 19:38:22 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:18:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Jesse Schachter <jschachter@psnw.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Dean Anderson wrote:
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> I'm all for working with the community. Each time I have, it has turned out that we need to operate relays.
Last time I checked, its not the "community"'s job to administrate your
network. That kind of statement is solid proof that you have absolutely no
idea what you're doing. Why don't you hire a professional to run your
network? Better yet, I'll do it for free if your company promises to fire
you, or at least demote you to a position that would put you no where near
an electronic device.
> Its the foolish people who ASSUME that all of the internet is composed
> of cable modems and the company email server, and the internal company
> modem bank, all behind a firewall and a VPN who think we don't need to
> operate relays.
Nobody needs to operate open relays, no matter what. No exceptions.
> Try to take relaying out of sendmail, and see what happens.
Sendmail is designed to relay. So what? That doesn't mean you're supposed
to be an open relay.
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