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Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)
From: Michael.Dillon () radianz com
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:38:37 +0100
we all knew that profitable large network owners would change the
landscape
compared to merely ebitda-positive large network owners, and here's an example of how "big company" cost management practices can go up against "reasonable and customary internet behaviour" and pretty much ignore it.
Having an abuse@ email address may be customary Internet behavior but it is no longer reasonable. The fact is that SMTP email has outlived its usefulness and needs to be replaced with something that provides a chain of authentication that certifies the sender's identity. Once email senders are no longer able to falsify their identity, then it will again be economically feasible for companies to accept abuse@ email from anyone. Instead of working to prevent email relaying, we should be working to encourage it along with certification of the sender's identity. If we had a web of ISP mail servers that trust each other to certify the sender's identity, then people would be happy to accept any and all email relayed through that web. The web of trusted email servers would use a new and improved mail transfer protocol (NIMTP) that would only be used to exchange email between trusted servers. Users could continue to use authenticated SMTP to initiate the sending of email, but nobody would accept any unauthenticated SMTP servers any more. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) David G. Andersen (Aug 02)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Paul Vixie (Aug 03)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) JC Dill (Aug 03)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Niels Bakker (Aug 03)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) David Lesher (Aug 03)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Gerald (Aug 03)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) JC Dill (Aug 03)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Justin Shore (Aug 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Michael . Dillon (Aug 04)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) David Lesher (Aug 04)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 04)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Jason Robertson (Aug 04)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Joel Baker (Aug 04)
- Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT) Paul Vixie (Aug 03)