Date: 20 Dec 2000 05:28:58 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No cable modems?? Message-ID: <87itofl72t.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: <200012200859.VAA32378@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> References: <20001220003436.A345@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012200859.VAA32378@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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"Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> writes: > I hope this doesn't spread. I have an ADSL connection and I send mail > directly from my mailserver. I don't want to send my mailing list server > output through my ISP. Nor should I. Part of the idea of handling my > own mail was both the independence and the learning experience. Yes, I would second that. My ISP's (Rogers) mail servers are down quite often, and there have been incidents with mail lost at all. I'm using my FreeBSD box on a cable modem as my own incoming and outgoing mail gateway, and have no intention of changing this. I think that the human tendency to over-generalize dangerously spreads into computer networks' configuration. Only because some admins _can_ play gods doesn't mean that it's a right (or even fair) thing to do. This might be a sentiment, but I don't want to be called a spammer with no grounds to it. p.s. I understand that a person is free to do whatever the heck he wants to his own incoming mail server's configuration. But I'm concerned with a tendency. I like having my own mail gateway (and I make sure it does not allow relaying). -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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