RE: MTA Survey

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

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 and 
> 12 and half 
> > > thousands voters later, Sendmail was declared king, followed by 
> > > Qmail, then Exim then Postfix, Exchange and some lesser 
> know immaterials ...
> > Your survey has a gaping flaw I'm afraid. For example, 100 nameless 
> > people click on the Sendmail button because it came free 
> with 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