This is beutiful. Paul Vixie joined the opensrs project mailing lists for
the purpose of defending himself. Wonderful.
Regards
Joe Baptista
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:17:24 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mike Bilow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Press Releases
> Greg Shapiro has already corrected your false assertion that Paul
> maintains Sendmail, so I will not waste time on that. (Paul did, with
> Frank Avolio, write a book titled "Sendmail: Theory and Practice.")
Fred Avolio, not Frank.
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
>
> > However - our attempt was cut short by Paul Vixie, who runs the ISC,
> > http://www.isc.org/. Paul vixie was also the BIND maintainer - in other
> > words the man responsible for the internets security holes in the dns
> > system. Paul incidentally resigned after we exposed to most of the world
> > that his program was a bit of a mess.
I (Paul) did nothing of the sort. I'm still the maintainer of BIND8, and
still the Chairman of ISC's board of directors. As it happens, BIND has
been completely rewritten in the last couple of years and the result (BIND9)
is only a month or two away from full public release. I am not a maintainer
of BIND9, since I'm too old and too slow to do that kind of work any more.
> > Anyway - paul did everything he could to block us, including placing us on
> > spam lists, which he controls - the RBL MAPS project.
Baptista's server was blocked because he was sending out massive amounts
of unsolicited bulk e-mail and refused to stop even though many recipients
complained. See http://mail-abuse.org/.
> > Incidentally - Paul Vixie also is the sendmail programmer, sendmail is
> > a program with many security holes which Paul capitalizes on.
Baptista is lying outright.
> > We tried to have Paul take on the responsiblity of asking the world to
> > upgrade the vulnerable BIND versions - but he was not interested.
Baptista wanted ISC to be a cosignatory to his massive spam campaign against
all domain holders. We refused.
> > > http://www.isc.org/ISC/news/pccf-statement.html
This page was written because of the number of complaints about Baptista's
spamming activities which were incorrectly sent to ISC. The recipients of
Baptista's spam believed, based on the content of that spam, that the
maintainers of BIND (which means, the ISC) were responsible for the spam.
