At 1:04 AM -0600 3/9/07, Brad Knowles quoted Herman Privyhum: > >> http://xrl.us/u8pf (Link to www.exim.org) > > So Phil says that he runs a trustworthy IDENT server on his box.
BTW, that article is eight years old now. Eight years in "real" time is over five Internet generations. We were still working on Web 0.9 at the time, much less Web 2.0. RFC 2780 was published in March of 2000. RFC 4856 was just recently published, in February of 2007. That's 2076 RFCs published since Phil's article was originally posted. Thanks mostly to the Hobbes Internet Timeline (see <http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/>), we know that 2000 was the year that Internet2 backbone network deployed IPv6. The year that Mexico finally got a fully operational connection to Internet2. The year that the French court ruled Yahoo! must block French users from accessing hate memorabilia in its auction site. Technologies of the year were ASP, Napster, and DeCSS. 2001 was the year of Grid Computing and P2P. 2002 was the year of the FBI teaming up with Terra Lycos to disseminate virtual wanted posts across the Web portal's properties -- does anyone even remember Terra Lycos anymore? 2003 was the year that PIR took over as the .org registry operator, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued 261 individuals on 8 Sep for allegedly distributing copyright music files over peer-to-peer networks, and VeriSign deployed a wildcard service (Site Finder) into the .com and .net TLDs causing much confusion as URLs with invalid domains are redirected to a VeriSign page. 2004 was the year that Network Solutions began offering 100 year domain registration, VeriSign Naming and Directory Service (VNDS) began updating all 13 .com/.net authoritative name servers in near real-time vs. twice each day, and the Internet Worm called MyDoom (or Novarg), spread through Internet servers. 2005 was the year that YouTube.com was launched. Estimates of the size of the Internet, by year: 01/00 72,398,092 07/00 93,047,785 01/01 109,574,429 07/01 125,888,197 01/02 147,344,723 07/02 162,128,493 01/03 171,638,297 01/04 233,101,481 07/04 285,139,107 01/05 317,646,084 07/05 353,284,187 01/06 394,991,609 07/06 439,286,364 Growth factor = 439286364/72398092 = 6.06765 According to the wikipedia page at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing>, the first known example of Phishing outside of AOL didn't occur until June of 2001. I quote: By 2004, phishing was recognized as fully industrialized, in the sense of an economy of crime: specializations emerged on a global scale and provided components for cash which were assembled into a finished attack. I'm sorry. I don't see how Phil's views from eight years ago on this subject are relevant to how computer systems should be operated in this modern world. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp