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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, John A. Tamplin wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Larry Sheldon wrote: > > > > How do you think those references got there? Could it be that enough > > > people requested it and asked how to do it with older versions of > > > sendmail that it was made an optional part of the standard configuration? > > > > Probably not. > > > > Can you say "bait and switch", boys and girls. > > > > Right out of Mad Man Muntz's handbook. > > As I recall, the first modifications to use RBL in sendmail were done > elsewhere, eventually a link was included on the sendmail site, and then > it was part of the configuration. > > I can see you are bitter about the impact on your mailservers. I am not > happy about the way it was done as well, but assuming it was malacious > seems excessive. The modifications were done at Paul Vixie's specific request. So was "best practices" RFC 2505. Any doubt about that? Read the articles: http://www.dotcomeon.com/relay_default.html http://www.dotcomeon.com/allman_sendmail_qa.html Don't believe me. Believe the words of Paul Vixie and Eric Allman. --Mitch NetSide
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