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 -- Ben Kennedy (chief magician) zygoat creative technical services http://www.zygoat.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
