Hello, On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thursday 12 Jun 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > Which is why having a community supported service sounds increasingly > > like a good idea. Let's see if there is some "prior art" which can > > help. > > This works when there are a number of volunteers who can fill each > other's roles.
I agree that a lot of people must chip-in. Each person using the service can (in a small or big way) contribute to its running. Part of the "prior-art" question is how does one set up things so that this contribution is possible. For example, bug-reporting must work well. Some sort of user upgradation system is required. And so on. > My general observation (including LUGs), when there is a call for > volunteers most step *back* leaving the one who proposed holding the > baton. Such pessimism is unwarranted. How do volunteer supported services (use Debian?!) work? The point is to make the service so vibrant that no one can do without it. > > One can also use TLS to communicate with "friendly" mail exchangers. > > I do not understand the above. Are you suggesting that I exchange email > with only those whose SMTP servers are willing to accept messages from > my smtp server? There will always be some mail servers/admins who will blindly follow the RBL of the most pig-headed of the DNS black-listers. For the rest of the "friendlier" admins you can offer to use your certificate-based TLS connection so that "normal" SMTP blacklists can be overcome. Most MTA's allow for TLS authenticated servers to by-pass the blacklists. In any case, the blacklists do not apply to if you are receiving mail --- only if you are sending it. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
