Re: Lazy network operators

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> > The reality is that the vast majority of email is handed off to
> > a designated mail relay (whether we're talking about consumer
> > connections or office environments), and if we actually
> > configured connectivity in this matter, there wouldn't be a
> > problem.
>
> our innate fear of this stems from suspicion of centralization and
> the telco switch model.  this fear is not clearly unjustified.

There are also plenty of legitimate reasons to permit
earthlink/juno/mindspring dialup users to hit mail relays on their own
domains. For instance, when on travel how does John Curran access his
istaff.org email? (presuming no 'ssh to my shell server and use
pine/elm/mh/mailx)

> maybe we can get reasonable security without a police state?

What will the jack-booted-thugs do then? :)