[ExI] Mail server announcement

[ilsa]

thanks!

Ilsa Bartlett
Institute for Rewiring the System
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:29 PM, John Klos <john at ziaspace.com> wrote:

> Hello, all,
>
> I just wanted to let people here know that we're going to be updating our
> email servers' configurations to reduce the amount of spam we accept.
>
> Spam servers often report themselves as "google.com" or "outlook.com",
> while real Google and Outlook servers are more specific. We're going to
> turn back on the feature which rejects email from servers that use an
> incorrect name instead of a name which points back to the connecting server.
>
> We had used this feature in the past but because certain email services
> are set up haphazardly, this was a problem and was turned off. This still
> could be a problem, but other servers using this feature have been
> relatively problem-free.
>
> If for any reason your email to the Extropy mailing lists is rejected or
> otherwise fails to appear in a timely fashion, please let us know. Since
> the same email server which hosts the Extropy mailing lists also hosts my
> primary email account (the one from which this message is sent), you
> wouldn't be able to reach me if this feature is the cause. In that case,
> you can email me at jklos {at} netbsd.org.
>
> Thanks very much,
> John Klos
> --
> I don't know which scares me more - that people adhere to the idea of an
> omnipotent being powerful enough to create the universe, but whose
> supposedly most cherished creation is a race modeled after himself which
> can't stop hurting and killing each other, or the idea that those same
> people cannot or will not consider the possibility that the universe is
> random and unfeeling, and it's up to us to create order and beauty out of
> chaos and entropy.
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