From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 24 12:59:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20608 for current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:59:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20601 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id PAA10105; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:59:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id PAA16490; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:59:16 -0400 (EDT) To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:01:48 CDT." <199707241601.LAA03086@compound.east.sun.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:59:16 -0400 Message-ID: <16488.869774356@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ reply-to set to chat ] Tony Kimball wrote in message ID <199707241601.LAA03086@compound.east.sun.com>: > I beg to differ. Most machines which may validly receive email do *not* > have valid hostnames. Using the majority-minority rule, *you* lose. > That's reality. > > Please do not intentionally damage global email. The system can only > take so much damage before it will no longer be able to route around > it. It's kinda like freon and the ozone that way, only more catastrophic. Stop cyberpromo, nancynet, iemmc, etc from sending out so many CFC's then. Then ISPs wont have to take action to defend their systems. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info