From: Steven J. Sobol [mailto:sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:31 PM

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matt Martini wrote:

...

I never liked the idea of someone else, with an agenda that I'm sure doesn't coinside with mine, telling me who I should talk to or not. When the source code defaulted to using these "services" that's when I bailed on sendmail.

No one forces people to use the dnsbl feature, nor are they forced to use the default settings. dnsbl is turned off by default. Give me a break.

I can't believe I'm hearing the crap I'm hearing from people who should know better.

Agreed. For the record, when I was still using sendmail, I had to build a new sendmail.cf on every install. The default, from Caldera, doesn't do RBL by default, or a lot of anything else. I am now using MS-Exchange for corporate groupware and am deploying Postfix for end-user usage. Since MAPS is no longer freeware (a fact that I do NOT begrudge them), I will no longer be using the RBL. It was of limited use anyway because, I have way too many Earthlink based users and Earthlink seems to have taken up permanent residency in the RBL <sigh>.