From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28094 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Fully-qualifying Email addresses in outgoing mail Date: 10 Dec 1999 17:17:05 -0500 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165002 28067 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA28673 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:17:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB28303; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:17:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:17:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17701 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:17:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from peorth.gweep.net (h0060978d8c91.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.42.159]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA28664 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:17:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA05956; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:17:05 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: peorth.gweep.net: ratinox set sender to ratinox@peorth.gweep.net (Stainless Steel Rat) using -f Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu's message of "10 Dec 1999 16:36:06 -0500" Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28094 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28094 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti) on Fri, 10 Dec 1999 | Sure, having no control of your system's MX record *and* wanting to | receive mail there is the NORM! No other configuration should even be | supported. What was I thinking? It is common practice to give contractors very limited system access, only as much as they require to do their jobs, no more. When I had a ClearCase contractor in a couple of months ago, I gave him root on the ClearCase view server because he needed it, and that is where people could send him mail while he was working for us. I sure as Hell did not give him access to my name servers or mail hubs. | It would be useful to 99.9% of all users, but not to you, so it should | not be offered as an option. Very sensible. Thanks for your help. I would like to know where you get your numbers. Where I work we have 300 employees, about 1/3 of which use local mail on our development systems. I do not really consider my slice of the world to be statistically useful, but 100 people is more than the "zero" you previously stated use local mail. So I think I have good reason not to go breaking local mail delivery simply because you think *all* mail must be Internet mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0g (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE4UXvggl+vIlSVSNkRAuxnAJ9tYYmSeAdOCPCUjVipgyw/jjNGkwCgn/lr JOIFyROJH0lFFGWVbza/H/4= =6+F5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rat \ Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ which, if exposed due to rupture, should PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.