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RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:21:42 +0200
At 11:50 AM -0400 2002/08/21, Robert Blayzor wrote:
Well yes, it could be done with certificates, but it can also be done via some type of "root server" system like DNS uses. A database distributed among many root servers from the registrars is proven.
Look. The DNS is seriously screwed-up enough as it is. Let's not take a bad model and replicate it elsewhere.
Tracking valid servers seems much easier to track rather than blacklisting IP's that are not mail servers at all or are abusive servers.
Sure. Only accept e-mail from white-listed servers. You don't need a complex system to manage that.
IMHO I don't think it would be that horrible of an idea with the right amount of notification and education to state something such as "register your mail servers by this date or risk service interruption".
Sure. Are you willing to be the first? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles () skynet be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
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- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Avleen Vig (Aug 20)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org william (Aug 20)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Avleen Vig (Aug 20)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org sjj (Aug 21)
- RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Robert Blayzor (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Ron da Silva (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Peter van Dijk (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Dave Israel (Aug 21)
- RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Robert Blayzor (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org sjj (Aug 21)
- RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Brad Knowles (Aug 21)
- RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Robert Blayzor (Aug 21)
- RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Brad Knowles (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org william (Aug 20)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Avleen Vig (Aug 20)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Brad Knowles (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org batz (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Gary E. Miller (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org batz (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Gary E. Miller (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org batz (Aug 21)
- RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org Al Rowland (Aug 21)
- Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org william (Aug 21)