Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 08:34:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc aliases Message-ID: <199708091534.IAA11621@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <989.871140528@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 9, 97 05:28:48 pm"
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> > Rod, > > You're perfectly capable of editing /etc/aliases. Yea, and so are YOU! The file /etc/aliases gives us a method to deal with this, placeing what YOU think is correct in it is applying POLICY, FreeBSD should not impose policy as the policy is almost always wrong. > > Poul-Henning > > In message <199708091526.IAA11577@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write > s: > >> > I _hope_ these are commented out by default as BSD has traditional > >> > only enable aliaes for accounts that exist in the default /etc/passwd > >> > >> Does that include the currently existing "postmaster"? :-) > > > >There is a difference between those.. MAILER-DAEMON is required by > >sendmail, sendmail is a standard supplied program, and MAILER-DAEMON > >I believe even appears as required by the RFC's. The indirection > >throught the alias postmaster to root seems to be redundunt and I > >have no idea why they did that. > > > >> > >> Seriously, I think these new entries are worthwhile *uncommented* so > >> that those legions of new systems don't bounce abuse, as has become an > >> oh-so-annoying tradition against a hoped-for defacto standard. > > > >I really want ``abuse, webmaster and hostmaster'' mail BOUNCED on > >80% of the systems I administer, that mail shouldn't be sent to > >dedicated routers, personal systems, etc, etc. > > > >If you want a ``hoped-for defacto standard'' to do any good > >get these added to the host requirements RFC. > > > >As I see it right now it is just 3 more ways for root to get > >junk email. (Yes, the spammers are not filtering ``webmaster, hostmaster > >or abuse'' for there bulk email lists, and some of them even cull > >the NIC data specifically LOOKING for new sites and hit both > >webmaster and hostmaster trying to sell you bulk email lists. > >Please don't give them yet another way to fill my mail box! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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