[plug] Returned emails

[Gary Allpike]

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:08:45 +0800 (WST), you wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Gary Allpike wrote:
>
>> if an email to your address bounces to me 3 times, I will remove you
>> from the list. 
>> 
>> If anyone has any strenuous objections to this, please let me know.
>
>No objections from me, so long as you promise not to screw up your DNS
>again :P

That wasnt my screw up :)

Somehow, our name servers in the .net.au database got changed to being our
secondary listed as our primary, and telstra as our secondary - and I
pulled the secondary apart to rebuild it :)

Dunno how it got changed :)

>
> - Matt
>(P.S. I have (under protest!) added the record "in.smtpd: PARANOID: ALLOW"
>to my hosts.allow file because not only was the my mail bouncing, but
>there are a large number of sysadmin-wannabe's out there who don't know
>the first rule about DNS. ie. make sure your PTR and A records match)

but I *do* wannabe a sysadmin when I grow up :)

Gary
-- 
Gary Allpike - spice at q-net.net.au
System Administrator
Q-Net Australia    http://www.q-net.net.au
Ph: +61-8-9386 1178   Fax: +61-8-9386 8200