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RE: MTA Survey
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:50:46 -0700
Or the highly likely scenario that the primary gateway accessible to the survey tool is some load balanced SPAM filtering cluster, and not the MTA in use as final delivery.
-----Original Message----- From: William Pitcock [mailto:nenolod () systeminplace net] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:28 AM To: Colin Alston Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: MTA Survey Hi, On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:25 +0200, Colin Alston wrote:Noel Butler wrote:Some of you may recall back in late 2006 we ran an international poll on MTA's, where over a period of several months and12 and halfthousands voters later, Sendmail was declared king, followed by Qmail, then Exim then Postfix, Exchange and some lesserknow immaterials ...Your survey has a gaping flaw I'm afraid. For example, 100 nameless people click on the Sendmail button because it came freewith FreeBSD,versus those of us who have fleets numbering the thousands of Exim servers and he only gets to vote once. Oh dear...Also, what about situations where there's multiple kinds of MTAs running in a network? William
Current thread:
- MTA Survey Noel Butler (Sep 25)
- Re: MTA Survey Colin Alston (Sep 25)
- Re: MTA Survey William Pitcock (Sep 25)
- RE: MTA Survey Tomas L. Byrnes (Sep 25)
- Re: MTA Survey Colin Alston (Sep 25)
- Re: MTA Survey Noel Butler (Sep 25)
- Re: MTA Survey William Pitcock (Sep 25)
- Re: MTA Survey Colin Alston (Sep 25)