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Subject: Re: Alternatives to sendmail and milter to control SMTP connections
From: Donald Nash <D.Nash@its.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:47:40 -0600
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--On December 8, 2006 1:49:16 PM -0600 Charles Cazabon <qmail@discworld.dyndns.org> wrote:

I don't need to know...

This is the hallmark of utter arrogance. You render an opinion on something you don't even understand.

Just for the record, we've been using throttling very successfully (it stops over half of the spam heading our way), for over two years, and didn't get a *single* complaint of legitimate mail being delayed until about two months ago when we tightened up the rules. That started causing occasional complaints, so we identified which rule was causing the problem and loosened it up. We're now watching the situation to see if it has been sufficiently addressed.

I do actually know something about administering mail servers in general,
and qmail in particular.

Yes, I know that. But you don't know squat about how our throttling works, because you never bothered to ask. But that didn't stop you from rendering an unflattering opinion about it, based on your own assumption that you must know everything about it and that we couldn't possibly be doing something you haven't thought of.

I don't recall expressing an opinion about firearms to you

Please don't be intentionally dense.  Do you not know what an analogy is?

Perhaps I took a shovel to the back of the head and forgot.  If I did,
maybe it would qualify me to work in IT at a Texas university

Ad hominem attacks are the last bastion of someone who has lost an argument.

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Donald L. Nash, <D.Nash@its.utexas.edu>
Information Technology Services, The University of Texas at Austin

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