On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:57:05PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: > > Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation > > (the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet > > under the reasoning that they're ... refusing connections from machines > > with characteristics like [his] (...simply no reverse DNS record)) > > sounds like a fairly direct and accurate translation of "admisitrative > > prohibition (failed to find host name from IP address)". > > Yes, that's what he said, but what he meant was that people shouldn't have > the right to decide who they accept mail from, and under what conditions. I > guess it's been too long since we had that particular flamewar on > debian-devel.
They have every right. They have no right to demand that those from whom they reject legitimate mail find another way to deliver mail to them, however. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <evilkalla> heh, I never took a coding class <evilkalla> or a graphics class <evilkalla> or a software design class <vegan> and it shows :P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
