From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 19:38:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0077D16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAA843D1F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:38:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836E869A71; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:38:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:38:15 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Nico Meijer Message-Id: <20040927153815.12a7ed24.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <41585E4B.9040108@zonnet.nl> References: <493F1EDF-0FE0-11D9-A586-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <20040926143211.02d40949.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4157A0F9.6010007@zonnet.nl> <20040927090142.1719d106.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <41585E4B.9040108@zonnet.nl> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Mail Server Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:38:18 -0000 Nico Meijer wrote: > Hey Bill, > > Black mode is on, here. ;-) I'm not familiar with that metaphor. > > Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail > > has been delayed? > > Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying. > > On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical, > day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd rather not handle the calls. Don't know what to tell you there. My major concern is that: a) When other servers reply with "could not deliver after x hours" messages, they'll still run around like idiots, and you'll have to explain anyway. b) You're punishing educated people by having their mail disappear into the ether with no warning. When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish idiots. > > If folks run around in a panic, then it's a training issue, not an > > excuse for you to quell useful informational messages. > > As much as I hate to admit it: regular people don't want their > mailservers to bitch at them *no matter what happens*, unless they are > down (in which case they don't bitch either ;-) ). You know, the same > people that shut their brain off when turning their computers on. My point is that we're obligated to force these people to turn their brains back on, before they ruin the world with their screwed up politics and other nonsense. Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers to wise up, instead of trying to cover up their stupidity with airbags, we'd have a lot less deaths due to vehicle accidents. > Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue > whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just > behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on > your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too, but most people don't. I disagree just a _little_. I don't _want_ to know, but I feel obligated that I _have_ to know. Others would rather just have their doctor prescribe something when thier shitty diet makes them sick. Then I have to pay the elevated health insurance costs ... now they want to turn the US into a socialized medicin country, so every citizen is _forced_ to pay for all the people who don't take care of themselves. > If I had a dime for every time I have had to discuss how mail delivery > actually works to Joe Average or his Windows NT/2000 systems > administrator... boy. Write up a web page and point people to it. Sometimes I think that if people enjoyed answering the same question over and over, there would be no FreeBSD handbook! > > Again, I have many _very_ strong opinions on how email should be > > managed, this is one of them. > > I happen to have a very strong opinion on the grim state of humanity > in general and regular, everyday, Joe Average computer users in > particular. I am therefore strongly biased. ;-) > > I disagree with you on the secondary DNS part (but I'm leaving that, I > have work to do ;-) ), I technically agree with you on the MX part. > > I'll try to get out of black mode now :-) ... Nico I still don't know what that means, but I guess _I_ was in rant mode. I'll turn that off now. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com