[geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery policies

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 23:35:56 (+0000), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery policies
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Darn Greg.  I just found I can't send you private email because my school
> > mail account isn't to a registered MX.  Talk about playing it strict.
> > 
> > 2) It really annoys me when people set up strict input compliance stuff on
> > their servers.
> 
> " Be liberal in what you receive and conservative in what you send. "
>     -- RFC 1123

Which is the most mis-interpreted and incorrectly applied piece of
advice from all the RFCs ever written.  This advice applies _ONLY_ to
protocol design, _NOT_ to anything related to local site policy.

> If the aim is to prevent spam - and it is true that most spammers have
> misconfigured mail systems - then it is still silly to block based solely
> upon that, simply due to the number of false positives.

You obviously don't know the reality of the modern public Internet.

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