Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

[Larry Stone]

> On Jun 6, 2020, at 9:20 AM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> 
> Ian Evans:
>> Food for thought from the co-author of OAuth and oEmbed. How easy would it
>> be for Postfix/Postscreen configs/docs to, say, refer to allow/deny lists?
> 
> Easily, if they can be acessed via DNSBL/DNSWL qeueries. Any 'new'
> lookup mechanism will have to be added through a postscreen policy
> plugin, and that involves new Postfix code.
> 
> For context: Postscreen decides if a remote SMTP client is allowed
> to talk to a Postfix SMTP service. The decision is made on (protocol)
> behavior and reputation, plus a static allow/deny list that is
> typically populated with information from major provider SPF records.

Unfortunately, I believe the poster’s question was a political correctness 
question, not a technical question.

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Larry Stone
lston...@stonejongleux.com