Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:10:57 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Gary Palmer" <gjp@in-addr.com>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups Message-ID: <v04205500b414d69d9fcf@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <199909270031.BAA29844@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <199909270031.BAA29844@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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At 1:31 AM +0100 1999/9/27, Brian Somers wrote: > An interesting extension: If an AOL MX receives a message with an > AOL from address from a non-AOL relay it's accepted for delivery and > dropped in the bit-bucket. Well, it's obviously spam (isn't it?) ! This item kept coming up about every three months while I was the Internet Mail Systems Administrator for AOL. Every time it did, we shot it down yet once again with the response "You idiot, that will break forwarding and mailing lists". I guess the idiots finally won. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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