From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christer Weinigel Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Feature request - Subtree checkouts Date: 11 Apr 2007 00:49:05 +0200 Organization: Weinigel Ingenjorsbyra AB Message-ID: References: <20070410074444.GA18541@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20070410132011.GH5436@spearce.org> <7vslb8ug7y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: alan , Junio C Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , "Robin H. Johnson" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 11 08:23:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HbPUY-0007De-NZ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:11:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161044AbXDJXLK (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:11:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161048AbXDJXLK (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:11:10 -0400 Received: from 2-1-3-15a.ens.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.31.214]:34696 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161044AbXDJXLH (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:11:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1321 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:11:07 EDT Received: by zoo.weinigel.se (Postfix, from userid 500) id 44B3010FD087; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:49:05 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > It's also possible to just not accept mail if the reverse lookup indicates > that the sending IP address is a dynamic address, which you can sometimes > see from the hostname. I would suggest you *not* name your hosts to > contain a lot of numbers and the string "dhcp", for example ;) That would be a very bad idea I think. Doing that would lose quite a lot of small companies and individuals such as me that run a mail server but are unable to get the ISP to change the reverse DNS. For example I do have a fixed IP, but have an reverse DNS pointer which looks like 1-2-3-4-5a.foo.bar.bostream.se. Forcing everybody to send mail through their ISP (and I'm not even sure if my ADSL subscription includes such a service) would be a big loss. First of all its a philosophical thing, I think that it's very important that small shops or individuals should be able to control the services they need, the internet is supposed to be peer to peer. Second because the ISP's mess up a lot more often than I do, for example Telia, one of the largest ISPs in Sweden have been having massive mail server problems during the last week which I'm happily unaffected by. /Christer -- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?" Christer Weinigel http://www.weinigel.se