I agree, I would say that we have to react first to avoid any beahviour that can pollute the Net anymore.
I will also think about some patches this week end. then we can maybe find a more political solution. however the consequences of the versigin behaviour won't be politically discussed before they happen.. On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:32:48PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Pascal Gloor wrote: > > > > > I've written a patch to qmail's dns lookup routines to detect the > > > wildcard responses from Verisign and convert it internally back into > > > a NX_DOMAIN. I think the same dynamic strategy can also be used for > > > Postfix and Sendwhale. > > > > This is good Andre, but it looks more like a "patch" (in its 1st sense) to > > glue a politicial stupidity. We should do something against the source of > > the problem and not find workarounds. I'm pretty sure you think so too... > > For sure I do. But when watching the behaviour of American corporations > in recent times (SCO, Enron, Worldcom, ...) I doubt that we will get a > quick political solutions short of a UN intervention with soldiers from > Bangladesh raiding the Verisign headquarters in California... > > However I don't like Verisign rejecting emails from my customers and > later going to step 2, collection of email addresses to spam them. > > I guess there must be some mental 'connection' between Verisign and > SCO executives... Hmmm... Maybe they are brothers but have been > separated in their early childhood and suffer some psychological > disorder best cured with repeated hits on their greedy fingers... > > -- > Andre > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ -- Key fingerprint = C549 46E1 1B75 116E 3321 BC0A E502 9457 319E B340 RFC822: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] << www.NetBSD.org ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
