From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: mx.gnus.org being very strict
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:10:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ekpr2p9o.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ekps5hcu.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Mon, 10 May 2004 19:20:33 +0200")
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> IMO with attitudes like this, changing the MX sounds like a better
> approach.
As written before, early rejection of malformatted mail prevents it from
disappearing in black holes like antivirus, firewall or antispam
software later in the transport.
The _robust_ approach is not to send out such malformatted mail, and
that's what mx.gnus.org did. You may see it as inconvenient, but it's a
sane approach.
--
Matthias Andree
Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-01 10:37 mx.gnus.org being very strick Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-01 19:36 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-02 13:11 ` mx.gnus.org being very strict Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-03 10:10 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 10:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-03 11:51 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 13:27 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-03 15:29 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-03 18:13 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 19:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-03 20:16 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-04 8:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-06 1:29 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-06 7:38 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-06 14:11 ` Josh Huber
2004-05-06 23:09 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-08 10:06 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-08 10:03 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-08 20:29 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-09 11:44 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-09 17:33 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-10 14:30 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-10 17:20 ` Steinar Bang
2004-05-11 11:10 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
2004-05-16 11:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-17 9:51 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 14:45 ` Wes Hardaker
2004-05-03 18:15 ` Matthias Andree
2004-05-03 11:01 ` mx.gnus.org being very strick Reiner Steib
2004-05-03 11:10 ` mx.gnus.org being very strict Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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