On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:38, Philip Hazel wrote:
> But that's the whole point! The answers are for YOUR benefit, not for
> their benefit. If you see no benefit, just send back "xxx" or whatever
> each time. There was one ISP that used to respond with an encrypted
> string that recorded in great detail the identify of who had originated
> the message (time, date, which dial-in line, etc), but because it was
> encrypted, it told nothing to the outside world. However, if it was sent
> back as part of a query, they could figure out exactly who caused the
> problem.
We used to do that at Planet. Stopped bothering though - the answers
were always either:-
1. exim
2. not a clue - its a dial-up user and getting that data means
going to the RADIUS logs
Nigel.
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