RE: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)

["Don Gould" <don () bowenvale co nz>]

> In message <20040217201751.5B25F5DDEA () segue merit edu>, "Tony Hain"
writes:
> > The Internet has value because it allows arbitrary
> interactions where new
> > applications can be developed and fostered. The centrally
> controlled model
> > would have prevented IM, web, sip applications, etc. from ever being
> > deployed. If there are any operators out there who still
> understand the
> > value in allowing the next generation of applications to
> incubate, you need
> > to push back on this tendency to limit the Internet to an
> 'approved' list of
> > ports and service models.
>
> Thank you.  You've got it exactly right.
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

I also agree.

The RFC for mail was very well designed.  If people simply stuck to the
orginal RFC (~800 something) and managed more of their own small systems
then this spam thing just wouldn't be the problem that it has become...
would it?

Cheers Don