[40185] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Thu Aug 2 21:26:34 2001
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:18:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@liveonthenet.com>
Cc: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, John A. Tamplin wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
> > > How do you think those references got there? Could it be that enough
> > > people requested it and asked how to do it with older versions of
> > > sendmail that it was made an optional part of the standard configuration?
> >
> > Probably not.
> >
> > Can you say "bait and switch", boys and girls.
> >
> > Right out of Mad Man Muntz's handbook.
>
> As I recall, the first modifications to use RBL in sendmail were done
> elsewhere, eventually a link was included on the sendmail site, and then
> it was part of the configuration.
>
> I can see you are bitter about the impact on your mailservers. I am not
> happy about the way it was done as well, but assuming it was malacious
> seems excessive.
The modifications were done at Paul Vixie's specific request. So was
"best practices" RFC 2505. Any doubt about that? Read the articles:
http://www.dotcomeon.com/relay_default.html
http://www.dotcomeon.com/allman_sendmail_qa.html
Don't believe me. Believe the words of Paul Vixie and Eric Allman.
--Mitch
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