OT - Quck DNS MX question.

[Steve Campbell]

Nicely put.

Steve

Rick Tait wrote:
> Agreed. The scare tactics were unecessary. But these sort of issues 
> are kind of like religion (the vi vs. emacs one I mean). Some people 
> are all like, "ooooh you must ALWAYS <do something> because if you 
> don't the wrath of Postel's ghost shall strike thee down from above", 
> whereas in reality things like this *are* (you're correct) usually 
> handled by the receiving side. Some MTA's have their own quirks just 
> by design, or through an admin's temperament/policy thrust down from 
> above; some  require PTR's, or are fascist about HELO vs. EHLO 
> formatting or they block vs. warn on SPF records, just like some 
> admins are fascist about how they get their knickers in a twist about 
> a whole lotta nothing and then broadcast their diatribe to as many 
> people as they can to try and make their bosses think they're doing a 
> bang-up job.
>
> </rant>
>
> -RMT.
>
> On 7/27/07, *Steve Campbell* <campbell at cnpapers.com 
> <mailto:campbell at cnpapers.com>> wrote:
>
>     I always thought it was up to the receiving server to decide on
>     the mail
>     transaction. It sort of POed me the way they threw the scare
>     tactics at
>     these guys at this little company.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Steve Campbell
>
>
>
> -- Vescere bracis meis.