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Article #2368Re: Block spams
From: Dave Horsfall
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <516ioq$cgo@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>,
imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au (michael butler) writes:
| : You're the second person to mention "hosts.deny" - what is this file?
| A configuration file which tells the TCP wrapper what to do. This only helps
| when SMTP is handled via inetd and not at all when sendmail (or smail or
| whatever) run as a daemon. Hosts which handle lots of mail suffer to varying
| degrees with this kind of overhead,
Ah - tcp_wrappers... Not much use for us po' trash on the end of
an MHSnet link :-(
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