[lug] poorly behaved KDE apps

[Zan Lynx]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 11:58 -0600, dan radom wrote:
> * Bear Giles (bgiles at coyotesong.com) wrote:
> > Today's candidate for "poorly behaved applications:" KDE bug reports.
> > 
> > I tried to submit a report, it apparently formats a message and 
> > sends it off to KDE's mail server.
> > 
> > Directly.
> > 
> > To a server that's apparently configured to reject all email from 
> > cable modem users.
> > 
> > Idiots.
> > 
> 
> This isn't necessarily idiotic.  90% of cable modem users that send email
> directly from their systems are worm infested windows systems.  The other
> 10% are running mail severs that they do relay off of.  If you want to
> send email directly from your email server you should consider using your
> MTAs smart relay / relay host feature and relay it off of your ISPs mail
> servers.
[snip]

Yeah, that's why he's complaining.  Not so much about them rejecting
email from cable modems (I think), but configuring their software to
send email directly instead of using the proper ways.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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