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