Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 08:26:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc aliases Message-ID: <199708091526.IAA11577@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <2621.871139252@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 9, 97 08:07:32 am"
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> > I _hope_ these are commented out by default as BSD has traditional > > only enable aliaes for accounts that exist in the default /etc/passwd > > Does that include the currently existing "postmaster"? :-) There is a difference between those.. MAILER-DAEMON is required by sendmail, sendmail is a standard supplied program, and MAILER-DAEMON I believe even appears as required by the RFC's. The indirection throught the alias postmaster to root seems to be redundunt and I have no idea why they did that. > > Seriously, I think these new entries are worthwhile *uncommented* so > that those legions of new systems don't bounce abuse, as has become an > oh-so-annoying tradition against a hoped-for defacto standard. I really want ``abuse, webmaster and hostmaster'' mail BOUNCED on 80% of the systems I administer, that mail shouldn't be sent to dedicated routers, personal systems, etc, etc. If you want a ``hoped-for defacto standard'' to do any good get these added to the host requirements RFC. As I see it right now it is just 3 more ways for root to get junk email. (Yes, the spammers are not filtering ``webmaster, hostmaster or abuse'' for there bulk email lists, and some of them even cull the NIC data specifically LOOKING for new sites and hit both webmaster and hostmaster trying to sell you bulk email lists. Please don't give them yet another way to fill my mail box! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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