Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an

2005-01-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:21:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 45 lines which said: > > Requesting rDNS means "I don't want to receive email from Africa". > > Having an rDNS entry for a host doesn't mean you know if it is/isn't > in Africa, Of course, I kn

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Of course, I know that. I just mentioned Africa because, in many > countries in Africa, it is simply impossible to get a PTR > record. That's a fact, there are many reasons behind. Howdy Stephane, It is also an area where many cctld operators maintain their registration data using spreadsheets

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an

2005-01-13 Thread Barry Shein
On January 13, 2005 at 17:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephane Bortzmeyer) wrote: > Of course, I know that. I just mentioned Africa because, in many > countries in Africa, it is simply impossible to get a PTR > record. That's a fact, there are many reasons behind. That's because one of their leader