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- From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov
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- Subject: RE: Does PMDF support SMTP source routing?
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:47:44 GMT
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- Greg writes:
- >I am responding to your posting to file a STRONG OBJECTION to what you are
- >doing! There is already enough junk traffic on the Internet without more
- >people designing automatons to troll for information that isn't desired
- >by anyone. There are probably 1,000 systems on this campus alone running
- >mailers, and I don't particularly want you probing them all to find out
- >how they're configured. Please reconsider what you're doing!
- >Gregory (Greg) E. Steele Postmaster@osu.edu
- >Network Engineer (Internet):ges+@osu.edu
- >The Ohio State University (BITNET): GES+@OHSTMAIL
- >Academic Computing Services
- >1971 Neil Avenue - Rm 406 Voice: 614-292-4843
- >Columbus, OHio 43210-1210 FAX: 614-292-7081
-
- Hmm. Let me try to allay your fears.
- I share your concern about junk traffic on the Internet, but Horton
- does not go offsite, so it does not put any traffic on the backbone at all.
- Horton does indeed troll for information- but in a very controlled way.
- It is only intended for use by network administrators to create an e-mail
- database for their *own* network.
- It is not intended to look outside the subdomain.
- I believe it is less invasive than Netfind, an e-mail lookup tool
- which is run directly by users instead of by a single administrator.
-
- Who would want to run Horton? Any network administrator wanting to set up a
- whois server but not wanting to collect and maintain the database by hand.
- It is already in use by ten or twenty sites around the world, including
- horton.caltech.edu; try whois /host=horton.caltech.edu searchkey
- to see what its database looks like.
- - Dan Kegel
-