From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 27 1:58:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from out1.mx.skynet.be (out1.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E4414BF3 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out1.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id KAA03076; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:58:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id KAA01788; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:58:40 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199909270031.BAA29844@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <199909270031.BAA29844@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:10:57 +0200 To: Brian Somers , Matthew Dillon From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups Cc: "Gary Palmer" , Brian Somers , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, 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