Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA06421; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:10:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cs.cs.utk.edu (bulk_mailer v1.10); Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:09:28 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA06335; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:09:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from koobera.math.uic.edu (koobera.math.uic.edu [131.193.178.247]) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA06322; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:09:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 1182 invoked by uid 666); 18 Jun 1998 14:09:41 -0000 Date: 18 Jun 1998 14:09:41 -0000 Message-ID: <19980618140941.1180.qmail@cr.yp.to> Mail-Followup-To: drums@cs.utk.edu From: "D. J. Bernstein" To: drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: numeric MX records References: <19980618120927.236.qmail@cr.yp.to> <199806181241.IAA25244@jekyll.piermont.com> Perry E. Metzger writes: > the owners of the site admitted it was misconfigured That's a common reaction _after_ the problem is pointed out. Meanwhile, there's a steady stream of new sysadmins who make the same mistake. As one consultant put it: ``If you simply accepted it, then my clients wouldn't have been without email from some of their clients for a week.'' > Vmailer Vmailer is used by fewer sites than numeric MX records are. Obviously you don't see many problems when you don't send many messages. ---Dan 50000 new aliases in 6 seconds. http://pobox.com/~djb/fastforward.html