28 Oct
2011
28 Oct
'11
4:42 p.m.
On 28/10/11 17:08, Andy Bennett wrote:
OTOH, I can see why a carrier might write a policy
that forbids all
unauthenticated SMTP for T-Mobile's stated reasons and how that might be
interpreted by the implementors to mean all ports that carry SMTP or its
variants.
Exactly. Policy set from on high by people who have no contact with the
techie level, and enforced by people who have no wish to go back
to their superiors with anything but a report that the policy has
been duly implemented. Do not blame the implementors: they probably
hate it every bit as much as you do.
I have the same hypothesis as to why the
"enter-card-number-without-spaces" stupidity is so endemic. Board-level
security policy is that
all numerical fields in forms must only accept digits. Which sounds
entirely reasonable until it comes to accurately transcribing a 16
digit number.