On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:24:33PM -0700, David King wrote: > >I used to think that running my own MX was neat. Now I am starting > >to think that this is the realm of wizards. Can mere mortals use > >the internet without ceaselessly battling with asshats? The fight > >is all gone out of me.
The problem is, if you run an MX then someone somewhere will consider
_you_ the asshat. For example, I send all postmaster mail to
/dev/null because I'm not going to dig through the literally
thousands of undeliverable-spam-bounce messages I see _daily_ to find
the message that someone accidentally sent to 'ferd' instead of
'fred'. That makes me a non-RFC compliant asshat.
But I also permit my systems to emit deliverable spam bounces on the
off chance that it is useful to someone else -- that may be RFC
compliant, but gets me considered an asshat by those who beat the "no
backscatter" drum.
I agree. Mail used to be cool, fun, and interesting. Now it's just
painful.
But all this is merely an interpersonal problem I have, and has
nothing to do with the actual software, most which I consider to be
remarkably hate-free, considering A) what it does and B) the state it
used to be in.
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