Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 08:43:04 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (over)zealous mail bouncing Message-ID: <E0wrlaD-0000ZL-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:01:48 CDT." <199707241601.LAA03086@compound.east.sun.com> References: <199707241601.LAA03086@compound.east.sun.com> <199707241422.HAA00957@hub.freebsd.org>
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In message <199707241601.LAA03086@compound.east.sun.com> Tony Kimball writes: : 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. Excuse me? I've *NEVER* seen that statisic in the 10 years that I've been on the net. Do you have some study that would back up this claim? At best I think that many machines might not have globally valid names, but they send their mail messages using globally valid names. Many large companies will have hundreds of internal machines, but they all go through one smart host that handles all the mail for them. They have been doing this for years, otherwise a majority of email on this list and others would not have a valid reply address, which is only the case in << 1% of the mail I reply to. Warner
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