From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 13 13:55:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF3237B400 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20570; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:55:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3DKteQ02525; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:55:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15544.39756.407442.609535@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:55:40 -0600 To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: Jim Mock , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AGH! Cannot post to any mailing lists :( In-Reply-To: <20020413104715.T2901-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> References: <20020413164720.GA47520@helios.dub.net> <20020413104715.T2901-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Jim Mock wrote: > > If you're in control of your reverse DNS, you need to fix it. If you > > aren't, it's time to club your ISP with the clue-by-four a few times... > > With all due respect to your domain, and to Godwin's law, isn't this > policy just a bit totalitarian? I'm often plugged in through random wifi > base stations or internet cafes, delivering mail directly from my laptop > rather than relaying it through somewhere. I'm doubtful even this message > will get through. No additional security is provided or even implied by > reverse DNS. Why require it? Accountability. It's fairly trivial to setup your 'fixed/permanent' mail server to allow your laptop to relay through it, which solves the problem completely. (And, this is how most 'travelling' software does it's thing, since POP3/IMAP by default is used for sending/receiving mail by most nomadic users. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message