[CentOS] DJB's daemontools package

[Les Mikesell]

Al Sparks wrote:
> 
> There was a lot of rudeness and snarkyness on that list.  They
> aren't kind to those they consider fools.
> 
> DJB has his acolytes, much like Linus Torvalds does.  I suspect that
> DJB's personality reflects the overall tone of DJB related online
> communities, much like Torvalds's personality affects groups like
> this.  I have to say, DJB's software offerings are top rate.

Qmail??? That thing that would accept all messages from a dictionary 
attack and try to return bounce messages to each even if they all had 
the same undeliverable address?  I ran that for a short time because it 
was included in a distribution and besides blocking the outbound queue 
with the bogus bounces, accepting those messages must have gotten them 
on some widely-sold list for spamming.  Even after replacing the mailer 
with something that quickly rejected invalid local addresses, I kept 
getting about 50,000 spam attempts a day for years to those addresses.

And wasn't bright enough to send group messages to the same host 
destination as a single copy with multiple addresses, even back in the 
days when bandwidth was expensive and hard to get.

I don't see why anyone ever put up with it, especially when the license 
prohibited distributing copies that fixed the obvious flaws.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com