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Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:06:05 -0500
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:08:25 +1300, Don Gould <don () bowenvale co nz> said:
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?
The problem is that literally 95% of the end hosts on the internet are running software that's not capable of being properly managed by the people who are alledgedly managing them. (Yes, that was carefully phrased that way, because there's *multiple* failures in the basic model. Lots of blame to go around on this one). Any real solution is going to have to deal with the fact that properly administered systems are in the distinct minority.
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- Re: Anti-spam System Idea Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 16)
- Re: Anti-spam System Idea J Bacher (Feb 16)
- RE: Anti-spam System Idea Timothy R. McKee (Feb 16)
- Re: Anti-spam System Idea Petri Helenius (Feb 16)
- RE: Anti-spam System Idea Timothy R. McKee (Feb 16)
- RE: Anti-spam System Idea Scott McGrath (Feb 17)
- Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Tony Hain (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino (Feb 17)
- RE: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Don Gould (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 18)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Robert E. Seastrom (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Nathan J. Mehl (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Joel Jaeggli (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Alex Bligh (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 17)
- Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea) Steve Uurtamo (Feb 17)