Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

[Brian Johnson <bjohnson () drtel com>]

On Oct 30, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:

<snip ridiculousness>

> Email travels over shared resources.  Spam consumes roughly %95 percent of that shared path (comm lines and servers). 
>  Receiving operators must devote masses of resources to filter that firehose of mostly junk, in order to get 
> everyone's mailboxes to remain at least somewhat useful. Since the spammers are well-organized and aggressive and 
> often quite bright, they adapt their attacks to get round these filters, thereby creating an extremely unstable arms 
> race. This means the entire situation is extremely unstable.  When -- not if -- it breaks, mail becomes unusable.  
> That will be a common suffering.
>
> The one-to-one cost or damage is probably also a reasonable perspective, but it's /incremental/ to the shared cost.
>
> d/
> -- 
>
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net


So you support filtering end-user outbound SMTP sessions as this is a means to prevent misuse of the Commons*. Correct?

 - Brian

* I do not think of the Internet as a commons, but Dave does. I will not comment on this as it is tangential to the 
thread.