Subject: Re: Ban the Spammer (hey that rhymes) RE: For Your Use (fwd)
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/1998 00:04:40
> This is a rather gross concept.  It's also extremely wasteful of
> resources, since it means spawning a second process to handle all
> incoming SMTP transaction.  If you want to do something like this,
> then the right was to do it would be to put a stripped down procmail
> engine into qmail's smtpd.  It should be just enough to say yay or nay
> to the incoming mail.  All the stuff to do with forwarding mail,
> calling external programs, etc. should be stripped.

Are we talking MVS or Unix here?

			       _MelloN_