--- Jeffrey 'jf' Lim [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:09:19PM +0800]: --- > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, jmc <j...@cosmicnetworks.net> wrote: > > i say this might be slightly OT because i am asking more of a > > philosophical question, not a technical one. the excellent documentation > > has given me all i need to know about the probability directive. thanks, > > devs, for that. > > > > (just as a "hint" to the rest who are considering whether to read > through) doesnt sound philosophical to me!
OK, cool. i framed it that way because i didn't want to come across as someone who was asking the list to do my thinking for me. as i suspect lots of misc@ readers do, i come from the ``be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send'' school. true the Big Bad Internet has and continues to change rapidly, but i personally still see value in that axiom. outside of the gift from ghod that is spamd(8), this will be the biggest divergence from that axiom that i think i have done in my years as a sys admin. > > i have grepped through the logs of other clients, and i don't see any > > evidence of any traffic from the lists of open proxies i've compiled, so > > i don't think this would have un-intended effects on them. > > > > dont see any evidence of *legit* traffic from the list of open proxies > you've compiled, u mean. yes, that is what i mean. i also haven't figured out if it's even feasible to keep up with what i'm sure is a rapidly-changing list of open proxies on a daily basis. but that's a sys admin problem, and i'll ask for help on that separately if/when i need it. the lists that i've compiled thus far are from disparate sources, and will require a bit of work to get everything in order. thanks again!
