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Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
From: Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:26:14 -0400
On 03/26/2014 01:38 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
Who do I send the bill to for mail traffic from 41.0.0.0/8 ? Tony.
You don't. Their upstream(s) in South Africa would bill them for outgoing e-mail.
Postage, at least for physical mail, is paid by the sender at the point of ingress to the postal network. Yes, there are ways of gaming physical mail, but they are rarely actually used; the challenge of an e-mail version of such a system would be making it dirt simple and relatively resistant to gaming; or at least making gaming the system more expensive than using the system.
And let me reiterate: I don't like the idea, and I don't even think it is a good idea. But how else do we make spamming unprofitable? I'd love to see a real solution, but it just isn't here yet.
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- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition, (continued)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Lamar Owen (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Laszlo Hanyecz (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Scott Buettner (Mar 27)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Laszlo Hanyecz (Mar 27)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition John Levine (Mar 27)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Rich Kulawiec (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Lamar Owen (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Tony Finch (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Lamar Owen (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Tony Finch (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Mark Tinka (Mar 27)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Jim Popovitch (Mar 27)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Mark Tinka (Mar 27)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Lamar Owen (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Tony Finch (Mar 26)
- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Paul Ferguson (Mar 26)
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- Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Larry Sheldon (Mar 26)