Lindsay Haisley wrote at 9:29 PM (-0600) on 1/5/09:

>IMHO, this setting ought to be the default for Courier.  Ident service
>was useful back in the days of Unix to Unix communication but it's a
>rather outmoded service, not really needed, used or supported much
>outside of IRC these days.  It's easily spoofed, and so is rather
>useless for security, and when I see it used it generally causes more
>problems than it solves.  It's rather a misfit in the current
>architecture and best practices of the Internet.

Well said; I agree.  Why is it on by default in courier?

-b

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