Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

[Phil Lawlor <phil () agis net>]

At 04:00 PM 10/29/97 -0800, Derek Andree wrote:
> Phil Lawlor wrote:
> > Exactly.  I guess the question is, should we build more sender verification
> > into sendmail, on both the sending and receiving side?
>
>  It would seem like a nice feature for Sendmail, but do you think it is
> realistic to assume that everyone would upgrade?  I know of many hosts which
> use "outdated" versions of Sendmail.  Then you would be faced with the
> question of whether to only allow connections from the latest version of
> sendmail (with the sender verification), which would limit it's usefulness.

Right.  Companies that don't have a need to upgrade, won't go through the
expense.  In many areas, caller ID is an optional feature that costs more
to have.  I found it very useful earlier this year when someone posted my
home phone number on the Internet.  If spam is really a big problem for an
organization, than they will go through the pain to solve it.

Phil Lawlor
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AGIS
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