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Subject: Re: Blocking spam mail (was: about sendmail security)
From: Anton J Aylward <anton @ Toronto . com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:49:56 -0400
To: "Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd" <mag @ bunuel . tii . matav . hu>, Colin Campbell <sgcccdc @ citec . qld . gov . au>
Cc: Kristian Köhntopp <kris @ koehntopp . de>, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

At 11:39 AM 28/09/97 +0100, Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote:

>Anyway I can't think of many situations when I would _need_ a secondary MX.

OUCH!
This is a sign of something, but I'm too old and wizened to 
remember what.  

Tell me again, Virginia, why in days of old did we all go
to great lengths to make sure we had DNS and MX secondaries which were
no only off site, but on a different network branch?   Why did I go
to such lengths to make sure they were on different tectonic plates
and strike zones?

/anton


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