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Re: ARIN whois
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:57:40 -0800
On 11/23/99, "Derek J. Balling" <dredd () megacity org> wrote:
At 09:46 AM 11/23/99 -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:The real answer is putting an authentication layer into SMTP.Already done. Sendmail supports it. Where've you been?Well, to be fair, sendmail has only supported it in a public release for 2-3 weeks. :)
True, but POP-before-SMTP and such have been around for much longer -- and, while I personally think they're pretty awful kludges in most cases, it WORKS.
There are other MTA's that Dean could long ago installed that implemented SMTP-AUTH before sendmail got around to it, though, so his argument is still pretty moot.
I think the root of his argument is that he doesn't want to feel as if somebody else is pressuring him to do something he would be too lazy to do otherwise. And, if his laziness did not affect anybody else, I'd support him in that. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk () cybernothing org> =========--------- | "A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points... | | but it is by no means the most interesting." | | -- Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who in "Doctor Who and | | the Time Warrior" by Robert Holmes (BBC, 1974) | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
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- Re: ARIN whois, (continued)
- Re: ARIN whois Dan Hollis (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Patrick Evans (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Daniel Golding (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Steve Dispensa (Nov 22)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 22)
- RE: ARIN whois Ehud Gavron (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois Patrick Evans (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois J.D. Falk (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois Derek J. Balling (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois J.D. Falk (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois William Allen Simpson (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois Alex P. Rudnev (Nov 23)
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- RE: ARIN whois Derek J. Balling (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois Alex P. Rudnev (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois J.D. Falk (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois Greg A. Woods (Nov 22)