Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > Hector Santos <hsantos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Let me ask, what if a fedex.com employee use this email domain for >> subscribing to the IETF list? > > Any subsequent problems are irrelevant unless FedEx, the owner of > fedex.com considers them to be relevant. > > That is what folk complaining don't get: you don't have the right to > use your employers email or a public email provider's email any way > you want. The domain name owner makes the rules. > > As Craster insists: My domain, my rules. Strange concept! Does your jurisdiction allow your landlord to interfere with postal/snail mail that is delivered from or to your rented appartment? And unless your jurisdiction is hopelessly outdated, the same rules ought to apply to interference with telecommunications. > > In the medium term, lets kill the stupidity of mailing lists with a > protocol that works. NNTP was originally designed to replace mailing > lists. It actually works quite well at that. The only problem was the > IT-Dictator mindset that underlies it: newsgroups have to be approved > by the Commune! Set up your own mail2news gateway. /usr/lib/aliases http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node213.html main2news script http://www.sirlab.de/linux/descr_m2n.html -Martin