Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:11:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: groggy@iname.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: package + gnu answers + mail Q. Message-ID: <20000406111118.B73503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200004052343.PAA04679@groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net> References: <200004052343.PAA04679@groggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net>
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On Wednesday, 5 April 2000 at 15:43:49 -0800, groggy@iname.com wrote: > ps. it seems my favorite maillist and a few others these days > block mail originating from a server with a private IP > behind a proxying gateway. is there i way i can continue > to use my own sendmail to mail from my FBSD machine behind > a proxying gateway? is my only choice to use the proxies > mailserver to send mail? this sucks for various reasons. > > i wonder if the war against spammers isn't as "silly" as the > drug war. i mean, for every action, with enough motive, > there's an effective counter action, and meanwhile, > innocent victims get caught in the crossfire :) > > i mean - no one "pushes" users to make their email public, > and everyone nowadays has a web-based "junk-mail" account :) > and the day enough people don't like spam, that's the day > there won't be anyone paying to do it. > > personally, i have more problems mailing in flexibly than i do with > spammers. (don't spam me for that!!!) > > more and more my email bounces with "originating domain must exist" > messages. :( This problem is indicative of the general quality of ISPs nowadays. The only good reason not to have reverse mapping is in order to spam. If your ISP is too stupid to set up reverse mapping, you probably want to change anyway. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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