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Re: Blacklisting services

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:30:32AM -0500, Hall, Philip wrote:
> > (Paul Vixie is one of the Internet's pioneers, and has hand a 
> > hand in a number of internet standards, especially E-mail and
> > DNS, he's a big contributor to the Unix Sendmail program and 
> > the author of BIND, the DNS
> > software that's still #1 on the Internet)
> Ah, so it is he that is responsible for the dodgy code that's been
> attacked by every pre-teen hacker wannabe to make it #1 exploited on the
> Internet too ?

No, he's only a contributor. The real responsibility for sendmail lies with
Eric Allman.

(Somewhat OT: If you're looking for a good, solid, easy-to-configure
Internet mail transfer agent for Unix-style systems, get postfix.)

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