Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

[woods () most weird com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Sat, November 1, 1997 at 11:28:40 (-0500), Bill Becker wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
>
> The basic concepts about email have to change.  The present system is
> hopelessly out of date. 

I'm not so sure about that.

There are a couple of silly points in the old RFCs (that are in danger
of being re-instated in the new ones), but other than that we've got one
of the most widely accepted mail transport protocols in use on the
Internet (recent corporate IS trade rags are saying SMTP is the way to
go, just as they finally did for TCP/IP).  I'm not saying these guys
should lead the pack, but they're usually pretty good thermometers.

There are a whole bunch of popular mis-conceptions and incorrect
perceptions about e-mail that we really do need to correct.

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