mail filtering based on reverse DNS

Fernando Gont fernando at gont.com.ar
Wed Aug 10 21:19:11 CEST 2011


On 08/10/2011 04:07 PM, S.P.Zeidler wrote:

>> It's unclear to me how you can so easily deem people as unprofessional
>> (for a simple error), but then show no concerns when an OS sits on a
>> security vulnerability without a fix for a year and a half.
> 
> Only one? Which?

Will post something about this in a few days. (he knows what I mean)



> Some problems are both hard (tm) to fix and hard to exploit. 

Not the case, though.


> If all one
> does is trip from one panic into the next, one'll burn out in record time.

I just argue that one should be a bit more careful when deeming people
as unprofessional. FWIW, I'd rather have an e-mail dropped than a whole
system DoS'ed.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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