From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 17:13:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19806 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA19796; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA21248; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 17:12:54 -0700 (PDT) To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" cc: Drew Derbyshire , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , hackers@hub.freebsd.org, support@kew.com Subject: Re: spam and the FreeBSD mailing lists In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Sep 1997 15:36:30 PDT." Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 17:12:54 -0700 Message-ID: <21245.873677574@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Good reason not to talk to them then. > > Actually I was told that numerous government agencies have networks of > machines that don't reverse out. > > > The TCP/IP protocol implicitly requires public IP address to be properly > > registered to be routed (otherwise, you don't get your ACK's back!), > > there is no sin in requiring public e-mail addresses registered as well. > > >