[lug] Can't send email to uswest domain

[Atkinson, Chip]

postmaster at 127.0.0.1 is kind of funny too, though that's pretty easy to
screen out..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:07 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Can't send email to uswest domain
> 
> 
> Unless I know someone at the organiztion, the "sign up to 
> download" gets
> "sales at companythatiamdownloadingfrom.com" (you know what I 
> mean) in the
> e-mail field, bogus info everywhere else, and I make sure to check the
> box that says I want their spam.  Hahahaha...
> 
> So what if they got my IP address in their server logs... most
> organizations that want my personal info that truly deserve it are the
> ones that actually would have a clue how to look at server logs.  The
> others, deserve to have to clean up their databases.  :)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:58:55PM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> > For Internet security, identd seems pointless.  I agree 
> with Nate and
> > wish they would give it up.  It's like being asked by a 
> telemarketer for
> > your name and address.  Or the classic "Sign up to 
> download".  I rarely
> > see any good reason to tell the truth.  Why bother?
> > 
> > First name: a
> > Last name: b
> > Phone number: 234-345-4567
> > 
> > SUBMIT!
> > 
> > Nate Duehr wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:25:39AM -0700, George Sexton wrote:
> > > > If you are firewalling your machine, make sure you let 
> the auth protocol
> > > > through to the identd daemon. Many mail hosts can 
> exhibit lots of strange
> > > > behaviors if the sender isn't running identd.
> > > 
> > > But of course, you can always point out to anyone running 
> a mail server
> > > that requires you to ident that they're not in compliance 
> with the RFC's
> > > for mail services.
> > > 
> > > I really dislike it when sysadmins try to secure services 
> that were
> > > never designed to be secure.  :) :) :)
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> > > 
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> > 
> > John Hernandez, Network Engineer 
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