[Dovecot] Firewalls are [essentially] free - WAS: Re: Source patches from Apple

Giuliano Gavazzi dev+lists at humph.com
Sun Dec 14 18:57:05 EET 2008


On S 14 Dec, 2008, at 17:22 , Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 12/14/2008 9:09 AM, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>>>> and I'm not interested in running a firewall on my mail server.
>
>>> Wow.. I can't imagine NOT running a mail server without a  
>>> firewall...
>
>> you put in so many negatives there that the meaning came out the
>> opposite of what you wanted, I suppose.
>
> Two is not 'so many'... the meaning is plain (for anyone who  
> understands
> english)...
>

you make my point, as the negatives were three (can not - NOT - with  
no) for anyone understanding english... so the meaning was reversed  
(unless you meant otherwise...).

> But I think, like Zed, this thread is dead.

uh? who is this Zed? My remark was just a frivolous post mortem then.

Giuliano


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