Re: namedroppers mismanagement, continued

Bernstein - I'm not surprised this is happening.  I've experimented with
your dns daemon and it is by far superior to the existing bind
implimentations.  So I'm frankly not very surprised Bush don't like your
posts.  But I will admit the behaviour is juvenile.  But again this should
not surprise us.

But to end this on a positive note - let me make clear I admire your work.

regards
joe baptista

On 26 Nov 2002, D. J. Bernstein wrote:

> I've sent twelve messages to the namedroppers mailing list this month.
> Five of them have been silently discarded by the namedroppers censor,
> Randy Bush. (See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/namedroppers.html for previous
> incidents.)
>
> Bush says that the only relevant feature of my messages is that they're
> sent from an address that isn't subscribed to namedroppers. Okay, boys
> and girls, let's look at some statistics:
>
>    * 5/12 of my messages have been silently discarded;
>
>    * according to Bush, this has nothing to do with me or the content,
>      so we estimate that about 5/12 of all non-subscriber messages have
>      been silently discarded;
>
>    * in the past three months, there have been about 100 legitimate
>      messages from other people who Bush labelled as non-subscribers;
>
>    * so we estimate that, in the last three months, Bush has silently
>      discarded about 71 legitimate messages from other people. That's a
>      rate of hundreds per year.
>
> Bush doesn't say ``Your message didn't go through.'' Bush doesn't say
> ``Reply to this bounce to confirm your original message.'' He simply
> throws the message away.
>
> This is supposed to be the mailing list for an open IETF working group.
> It's outrageous that valid messages are being silently discarded---even
> if the number is not as large as hundreds per year.
>
> ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
> Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
>
> P.S. Out of my twelve messages, the five that were silently discarded
> are exactly the five that I would pick if I were a censor trying to bias
> the DNSEXT decisions in favor of the BIND company. Coincidence, right?
>
> P.P.S. Bush's mailing-list software doesn't cryptographically confirm
> unsubscription requests. I kept my subscription address private until
> Bush revealed it a few days ago. I'm working on obtaining a subscription
> through an address that Bush doesn't know is connected to me.