At 6:19 PM -0400 4/6/03, waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org wrote:
Is the corporate firewall a NAT machine or is it a dumb MTA that
relays to the "smart MTA" ? If it's a dumb MTA, then why is it being
used ?
- Scalability
- Distributed administration (you don't really think one department
handles all email at a multi-national corporation--even if there's a
single unified domain)?
- Gateways to mail systems using other protocols
- Spam filtering!
...
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Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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