[40190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Fri Aug 3 00:41:34 2001
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20010802232908.D6358@HiWAAY.net>
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Matt Martini <martini@invision.net> said:
> > I never liked the idea of someone else, with an agenda that I'm sure
> > doesn't coinside with mine, telling me who I should talk to or not. When
> > the source code defaulted to using these "services" that's when I bailed on
> > sendmail.
>
> You must be talking about some other MTA. Sendmail has never defaulted
> to using any of the MAPS (or any other DNS-based) lists.
>
> You don't think DJB has an agenda?
Relevant sendmail source code extracted:
http://www.dotcomeon.com/release_notes.html
Quote: "The default is rbl.maps.vix.com." Never say never again ;)
--Mitch
NetSide
