RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>]

At 7:23 PM -0400 2002/08/21, Robert Blayzor wrote:

> >         Sure.  Are you willing to be the first?
>
>  If it came down to the wire and something like this were implemented,
>  and enforced, then yes, I'd be the first in line.  If the software, the
>  system and the means are available, I'd make sure we were registered
>  before the system went live.

	Right.  How are you going to enforce *anything* on the Internet? 
Every single RFC in existence is optional, at best.  Every single 
black list is certainly optional.  And until you can control the 
entire Internet and operate the mail servers for everyone in the 
world, there's no way in hell that you're going to get everyone to 
subscribe to the same white list.

        Sorry, guy.  Ain't gonna happen.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles () skynet be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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