On 2002.07.12 Ben Reser wrote: >On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:26:01PM +0200, Pascal Terjan wrote: >> I currently can't post from home. My ISP sux so I currently don't have >> reverse DNS. >> So, the Mandrake SMTP server refuses my mail... > >Frankly I don't understand why they have their mailservers setup to >require reverse DNS. It doesn't kill that many spammers and kills a lot >of people who's ISPs don't bother with reverse or are just plain stupid. >At least it's caught me and I *DO* have my reverse set right and we see >this come up every so often. > >I would imagine the filtering would do just fine getting rid of the spam >without this requirement. >
At least, mdk does not require good handling of ECN. vger.kernel.org does, and it kills my ISP. It uses Sun boxes and soft, and they do not handle correctly ECN. Just block it. -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: It's better when it's free mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ -- Linus Torvalds, FSF T-shirt Linux werewolf 2.4.19-rc1-jam3, Mandrake Linux 8.3 (Cooker) for i586 gcc (GCC) 3.1.1 (Mandrake Linux 8.3 3.1.1-0.7mdk)
