I think a large number of people on this list need to spend more time actually
listening to and considering people's concerns than simply saying 'thats not
how we do things here'. Anyone else read DJB's discussions about being on the
nameserver mailing list? I'm not being moderated out (I appreciate that), but
the number of slams vs. useful responses to proposals is staggering.
If all you have to say is "not my MTA, thank-you" then you may as well not
bother. Silence does not mean consent. Especially in OSS.
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> John R. Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 21 July 2000 at 15:40:59 -0000
>
> > I like qmail a lot. It's way easier to deal with than sendmail, and
> > does a good job for my purposes. There are some things which I wish
> > it did differently. This business of not bothering to consolidate
> > deliveries of recipients at a common host (or mx) into a common
> > connection is one of them.
>
> How would you suggest that this be performed without destroying the
> simple, secure, structure of qmail? And what would the cost in
> increased DNS traffic and increased disk bandwidth be?
>
> That is, have you considered this carefully enough to be able to make
> an actual proposal on how to do it, or are you just blowing smoke and
> assuming it's easy and cheap?
