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Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]



On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:19:06AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> People like Mr. Jones don't like to consider impacts.  They like easy rules
> and easy policies.  They don't like to do analysis.  And they especially
> don't like to be inconvenienced by considerations of the impact of their
> actions on a larger system.  Because that's Hard.  Nobody likes Hard work.

People sending mail from dialups and IP's without reverse DNS have several
choices:

1) Use their ISP's mail server to send mail and/or get their ISP to fix the
problem.
2) Ask a friend for an SSH account on a box that mail can be routed through.
3) Come up with a better way to block spam, so that everyone can stop using
RBL/RSS/DUL.
4) Do nothing except whine and cry every time the issue comes up in a public
conversation.

It seems that #4 is the preferred choice for some of the poeple on this list.

> Nobody said fairness or intelligence were easily come by, either.  Does it
> follow that we should not encourage their cultivation?

I hereby dub thee "Duke of False Analogies".

--Adam


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