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From: CFT-WIN List Manager <>
Subject: [CFTW] Let's Stop This Thread (Was: Strange mail server setup at rootsweb.com)
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:02:39 -0500
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It's time to stop this thread. It has nothing to do with the CFT-WIN
Mailing List.

If anyone has problems with the servers at Rootsweb, contact me
PERSONALLY and do not burden the other subscribers of the List
with things they don't need.

Thank you,
SgtGeorge
George W. Durman

At 3/5/04 04:16 AM Friday, Christian Perrier wrote:
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>Quoting Ernie Drabble ():
>
> > I echo George's earlier comments - as a member of this list and having
> > nothing whatsoever to do with it's excellent operation, I consider such
> > comments totally inappropriate and unjustified, particularly when
> describing
> > someone who we do not know, but who does an excellent job for no
> > remuneration. Over the past two years I have received nothing but
> useful
> > advice and help from both the Administrator and other members of this
> list,
> > and I for one am more than willing to support them wherever I can.
>
>THe problem is not the way this list is administered. The problem is
>the way rootsweb servers are administered.
>
>Doing volunteer work does not prevent to be professionnal. The choices
>made for Rootsweb server (which seems to be refusing mail when reverse
>DNS lookup of the originating server is not operational) are very well
>known to be inappropriate choices, for lots of reasons, for instance
>by all people who have (voluntarily) participated in setting up
>Internet infrastructure in Africa, or some other so-called "merging"
>countries (just try to do reverse DNS lookups with Centrafrica for
>instance...).
>
>The current rootsweb server violates at least one RFC: RFC 2821 ("3.6
>Domains" and moreover "4.1.4 Order of Commands" which is very
>clear). My own server does not.
>
>
>
>
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This thread:

• [CFTW] (forw) Strange mail server setup at rootsweb.com by Christian Perrier <>
  • Re: [CFTW] (forw) Strange mail server setup at rootsweb.com by CFT-WIN List Manager <>
    • Re: [CFTW] (forw) Strange mail server setup at rootsweb.com by "Carl or Marie Veenstra" <>