Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

[Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org>]

Been there, done that (I wrote my own driver for the bisync card, so I didn’t have the latter problem, just had to tame 
a barely documented Motorola chip “helping” with the already weird DLE handling).  I’d still prefer doing that again 
over today’s spam problem.

(There actually is a teachable lesson here, which is about getting rid of gateways.  But that’s for another day…)

Grüße, Carsten


> On Feb 21, 2019, at 00:59, valdis.kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:22:51 +0000, Matthew Black said:
> > Have you ever created a sendmail.cf without using M4?
>
> Sendmail 5.6mumble or so, for a machine that was on UUCP, Arpa/Milnet, and
> Bitnet and gatewayed between them.  Bitnet was particularly ugly because (a)
> EBCDIC and (b) no way to represent a null line in NJE.  Bonus points for the
> bisync interface card that claimed to do DLE stuffing for SDLC but didn't...
>
> And of course, approaching any address that had all 3 of  %, ! and @ in them 
> was loads of fun because the semantics depended on which interface they
> came in on...