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Re: Spamhaus...
From: Michelle Sullivan <matthew () sorbs net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:32:09 +0100
Paul Vixie wrote:
so, a uucp-only site should have upgraded to real smtp by now, and by not doing it they and their internet gateway are a joint menace to society? that seems overly harsh. there was a time (1986 or so?) when most of the MX RR's in DNS were smtp gateways for uucp-connected (or decnet-connected, etc) nodes. it was never possible to reject nonexistent@uucpconnected at their gateway since the gateway didn't know what existed or not. i'm not ready to declare that era dead.
I was running a UUCP gateway not so long ago, and might revive it in the future (got an old school BBS with a UUCP gateway and no SMTP still.) The front end still knew the back end valid addresses though and that's going from a PCBoards BBS to a Postfix SMTP gateway via UUCP. That said there are many out there that refuse on the grounds "I don't have the time to fix it" .. and of course one could retort with "I don't have the time to receive mail from you." I'm on the fence, if it's SMTP there *should* be no reason for the front end not to know valid users at the back end... Something will know the valid list of email addresses, so you *should* be able to get that information to the front end. Michelle * should because there will be edge cases where you can't get the information, but then are there that many emails behind that gateway that couldn't be updated manually?
Current thread:
- Re: Spamhaus..., (continued)
- Re: Spamhaus... Paul Vixie (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus... Rich Kulawiec (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... William Herrin (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... James Hess (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Rich Kulawiec (Feb 24)
- Re: Spamhaus... William Herrin (Feb 24)
- RE: Spamhaus... Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 21)
- RE: Spamhaus... Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Paul Vixie (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Michelle Sullivan (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus... Steven Champeon (Feb 19)
- Re: Spamhaus... Christopher Morrow (Feb 18)
- Re: Spamhaus... John Levine (Feb 18)
- Re: Spamhaus... Marc Powell (Feb 19)
- Re: Spamhaus... Michelle Sullivan (Feb 19)
- Re: Spamhaus... Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 20)