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Subject: Re: address rewriting?
From: David Terrell (dbtmeat.net)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 20:24:20 CST

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:35:05AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 5:53 PM -0500 2000/3/29, Jim Seymour wrote:
>
> > Problem? :-) But I was addressing merely the *mechanics* of
> > such on-the-fly munging. Not the advisability, or lack thereof,
> > of doing it.
>
> Any time you address the mechanics, you also need to point out
> the extreme lack of advisability of this kind of stupidity. So long
> as they know it's a stupid idea, you can discuss mechanics all you
> want.
>
> But you can't give people a false impression that it's a good
> idea (or at least not a bad one) by simply discussing mechanics
> without discussing the fundamentally flawed nature of the concept
> itself.

Such things should be done through a ph server or ldap server, mostly.

I need to port mark roth's PH sendmail patch to postfix (or just implement
similar functionality). 

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