On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Professional Software Engineering - Lists account wrote:
At 04:03 PM 6/11/97 +0300, era eriksson wrote:
However, they would like it to work on an address-by-address basis,
where era(_at_)nospam(_dot_)iki(_dot_)fi would be subject to filtering, while
era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi would not be filtered at all.
You and they realize, of course, that that scheme will be doomed.
Many people add a nospam tag to their email addresses; no doubt have many
spammers learned to remove it.
The problem is that the whole service is run pretty much as a
volunteer effort, so one issue is also whether any proposed solution
Well, apparently mail is handled by a machine known as "jatko.iki.fi", and
Iki.fi has to my knowledge two machines: jatko (translation:
the continuation) and alku (the beginning). Jatko is the primary server
and alku -- the original machine -- is the backup.
IMHO, if they're all that big (1400 users), they
should want a secondary MX machine anyway...
They do have one, but they use it only for backup. IMHO, when an
association offers you a permanent address for which you have to pay
130 marks (some 26 US dollars) once -- no annual fees -- you should be
happy. Take what you are given and perform the mail filtering on the
destination host, if necessary.
Alternatively, one can always volunteer to coadminister the site. As IKI
is an association, it is not exactly a 'they', but a 'we'. What IKI
offers, depends on the volunteers.
Antti-Juhani, an IKI member (gaia(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi)