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Rain on Tom's article, like I promised ;-)

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o Some minor grammatical and spelling corrections
o Add some comments where I think improvements are desirable, but the
  initial intent was not clear to me.
o Correct a URL
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@ -46,19 +46,19 @@
spammer most likely moves on to the next host in place
of trying to send the email again. This is an excellent
idea; at least until the spammers begin to use software
that offers try again. But how does this work exactly?
that offers to try again. But how does this work exactly?
Well, when an email is received the message
<acronym>ID</acronym> is stored in a database, the
<acronym>ID</acronym> is stored in a database and the
<errorname>TEMPFAIL</errorname> is returned along with the
email. If the email is resent, the message
<acronym>ID</acronym> will be checked against the message
<acronym>ID</acronym>s currently stored in the database.
If it exists than the email is permitted to reach its
If it exists in the database then the email is permitted to reach its
intended recipient. Otherwise, the <acronym>ID</acronym>
will be stored and a <errorname>TEMPFAIL</errorname> will
be issued. This cycle will continue with every email which
be issued. This cycle will repeat with every email which
comes into the server. From my personal experience, this
really does cut 90% of the spam.</para>
really does cut out 90% of the spam.</para>
</abstract>
</articleinfo>
@ -67,13 +67,15 @@
<para>&os;&nbsp;4.X includes <command>perl</command> in the base
system, but we need the threaded <command>perl</command>.
Users of &os;&nbsp;5.X may start the process after the forthcoming
Users of &os;&nbsp;5.X may start the process after reading the forthcoming
note.</para>
<para>Remove the base <command>perl</command> and all
traces of <command>perl</command> from the system with
the following command:</para>
<!-- XXX This looks like too much; "Half of my home directory is
missing!" Won't use.perl do? -->
<screen>&prompt.root <userinput>find / -name '*perl*' | xargs rm -rf</userinput></screen>
<note>
@ -88,8 +90,8 @@
<para>Install <filename role="port">lang/perl5.8</filename>
with the <makevar>USE_THREADS=yes</makevar> variable
set. The current version of <command>perl</command>
may need to be removed first, errors will be reported
by the install process if that requirement exists.</para>
may need to be removed first; errors will be reported
by the install process if this is necessary.</para>
<note>
<para>&os;&nbsp;4.X users will need to run the
@ -126,8 +128,8 @@
port. As of this writing the <filename>Makefile</filename>
contains a line beginning with <makevar>BROKEN</makevar>,
just remove it or comment it out. It is only marked
this way because &os; does not either have nor installs
a threaded <command>perl</command> package. Once that
this way because &os; neither has nor installs
a threaded <command>perl</command> package by default. Once that
line is removed it should build and install perfectly
fine.</para>
@ -142,7 +144,7 @@
<command>fetch</command> command:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fetch http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/releases/relaydelay-0.04.tgz</userinput></screen>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fetch http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/greylist-users/2003-September/000261.html</userinput></screen>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>fetch http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/greylist-users/attachments/20030904/b8dafed9/relaydelay-0.04.bin</userinput></screen>
<!-- NOTE TO TOM RHODES: HAVING THE SOFTWARE LINKED HERE IS A BAD IDEA IN
CASE SOME ASSHOLE UPDATES IT. I SHOULD PROBABLY ARCHIVE THE OTHER URL
@ -196,7 +198,7 @@
</note>
<para>If everything worked correctly a new file,
<filename>relaydelay.log</filename> should exist in
<filename>relaydelay.log</filename>, should exist in
<filename role="directory">/var/log</filename>. It should
contain something similar to the following text:</para>
@ -232,7 +234,7 @@ Starting Sendmail::Milter 0.18 engine.</programlisting>
<para>Edit the <filename>whitelist_ip.txt</filename> file and
modify it to include <acronym>IP</acronym> addresses of servers
which should have the explicit abilities to bypass the
<application>relaydelay</application> filters. i.e.: domains
<application>relaydelay</application> filters. i.e., domains
from which email will not be issued a
<errorname>TEMPFAIL</errorname> when received.</para>
@ -283,6 +285,7 @@ Passed Recipient: &lt;local_user@pittgoth.com&gt;
<screen>/var/log/relaydelay.log 644 3 100 * Z</screen>
<!-- XXX What text does this note belong with? -->
<note>
<para>At some point there was an error about improper
<command>perl</command> variables in the