In my head, a hypothetical ISP wrote: > Hypothetical angry-user wrote: > > > > Trust your Internet mail-senders, then. > > You are awfully free with how our system resources are spent, aren't > you? We only charge $14.95 a month-- we literally CANNOT AFFORD the > extra costs in more elaborate spam-pervention. If you can show me > another program with the same low costs (of maintance) that this one > does, or are willing to supply the extra resources, fine-- we'll use > it. But for now we're going to stick with this one -- even if it > isn't perfect -- because getting spammed isn't an option for us. Okay. Enough feeding the silly flame-beasts. I'd like to direct your attention now (especially those of you advocating using your isp's relay.) to a very real technical question in debian-user (please follow-up to his question there): Allan M. Wind has a local LAN, I have a dynamic IP, both of us have the problem that the hostname that our local Sendmail is telling our ISP's SMTP relays is not a resolvable hostname. The relay declines to do the transaction. Solution? Because of the necessity (demonstrated in the above thread) of using a relay, and what I imagine must be a prevailance of dialup, dynamic-ip using users in the linux user base, this must be a *very easy* problem to solve upon installation. In fact, it shouldn't /be/ a problem at all. How can we work to make sure this is so? It's certainly not advisable to change the system hostname on every ppp/ip-up (believe me... I tried it last summer ;) Thanks for your productive efforts in making Debian a better place, - Kevin Turner -- Kevin.Turner@oberlin.edu | OpenPGP encryption welcome here, see X-DSA-Key
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