Re: Frank Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:00:12 -0700, Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> said:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:14:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Hell, consider this. Here I am on a 3 week business trip, sitting
>> in one of these anonymous little building associated with DARPA
>> (well, actually one of the ubiquitous three letter acronym
>> "sensitive" labs). I have access to an internet connection, but
>> not to the servers in the facility -- (I may not have clearance,
>> and certainly the data transmitted would not be allowed there). I
>> get a dynamic IP for net access.
>>
>> I see one of these emails that require a role response, and, rather
>> than making everyone wait for weeks, I respond.
> Good job. You could have done the same thing without running a mail
> server on your dynamic-IP-connected host.
perhaps. But that is not what I have chosen to do, and setting
up a MTA is simpler, and easier for me to maintain, than setting up
a mail-relay accessible over the network. Now, if people want to
drop legit email based on the fact that my IP happens to be provided
by a dhcpd, regardless of content, it is their choice, and their
headache, if this happens to discard data they thought was valuable.
I don't complain that they are dropping my mail (unless this
is mail sent to a role address that people are supposed to be looking
at), as long as people don't hector me for running my own outgoing
MTA.
manoj
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"It's like deja vu all over again." -- Yogi Berra
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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