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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK] PATCH ReiserFS 1 of 3 RESEND
Date: 10 Sep 2002 08:59:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8WbPErQ1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209090831240.1641-100000@home.transmeta.com>

torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)  wrote on 09.09.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209090831240.1641-100000@home.transmeta.com>:

> where "reload.namesys.com" is not in the MX domain:
>
> 	dig -t MX reload.namesys.com

... i.e., does not have a MX record.

> (Yes, I realize that both addresses likely work perfectly fine, and that

Since the RFCs *demand* that an address mentioned in mail has an MX  
record, and the fallback to A records was not, until recently, described,  
there probably are some mailers that cannot deliver mail to that address.  
Which, in my book, counts as "not perfectly fine", even though I admit  
those mailers are probably in a minority as, sadly, this particular  
disease is pretty widespread.

Still. I personally count it as a bug just the same as using an implicit  
extern to call a function.

> [ Cc to linux-kernel left intact not to publicly castigate Hans, but
>   because I know this is true for some other people too. ]

Similar here.

MfG Kai

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-09 11:31 [BK] PATCH ReiserFS 1 of 3 RESEND Hans Reiser
2002-09-09 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-09 15:48   ` Tomas Szepe
2002-09-10 10:41     ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-09 15:52   ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-10  6:59   ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2002-09-10  9:07     ` Matti Aarnio

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