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Re: [OT] Re: Feature request - Subtree checkouts

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CWChrister Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
Date
Apr 10, 2007, 22:49 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> It's also possible to just not accept mail if the reverse lookup indicates 
> that the sending IP address is a dynamic address, which you can sometimes 
> see from the hostname. I would suggest you *not* name your hosts to 
> contain a lot of numbers and the string "dhcp", for example ;)

That would be a very bad idea I think. Doing that would lose quite a lot of small companies and individuals such as me that run a mail server but are unable to get the ISP to change the reverse DNS. For example I do have a fixed IP, but have an reverse DNS pointer which looks like 1-2-3-4-5a.foo.bar.bostream.se.

Forcing everybody to send mail through their ISP (and I'm not even sure if my ADSL subscription includes such a service) would be a big loss. First of all its a philosophical thing, I think that it's very important that small shops or individuals should be able to control the services they need, the internet is supposed to be peer to peer. Second because the ISP's mess up a lot more often than I do, for example Telia, one of the largest ISPs in Sweden have been having massive mail server problems during the last week which I'm happily unaffected by.

    /Christer
-- 
"Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"

Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>  http://www.weinigel.se
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Message 8 of 15 in “Feature request - Subtree checkouts”
  1. Robin H. JohnsonApr 10, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceApr 10, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 10, 2007
  5. [OT] Re: Feature request - Subtree checkoutsalan, Apr 10, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 10, 2007
  7. alanApr 10, 2007
  8. Christer WeinigelApr 10, 2007
  9. alanApr 10, 2007
  10. David LangApr 10, 2007
  11. Jimmy TangApr 12, 2007
  12. Robin H. JohnsonApr 10, 2007
  13. Robin H. JohnsonApr 10, 2007
  14. Shawn O. PearceApr 10, 2007
  15. Johannes SchindelinApr 14, 2007

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