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Re: question on ptr rr


From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:21:34 +0100


* Michael.Dillon () radianz com (Michael.Dillon () radianz com) [Mon 09 Feb 2004, 11:40 CET]:
Imagine a world in which only ISPs run SMTP servers
which only talk directly to other servers with which
they have an offline relationship. A world in which
everybody hands over their email to an ISP for onward
delivery in order to get it into the system. A world
in which it is virtually impossible to send anonymous
or forged email without the cooperation of an ISP.

Yuck.

(I'm getting flashbacks to a certain Dr. Strangelove scene right now.
 And to some from Brazil, too.)


        -- Niels.

-- 
Blessed are the Watchmakers, for they shall inherit the earth.


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