On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Paul, let me add one more to your list: As a community, we have > >been too lazy to take hold of the architectural source of the > >problem, which is the complete lack of accountability over the > >ability to post email. > > Hear, hear. > > >Of course, this breaks the end-to-end model of the Internet... > >Too bad. End-to-end makes sense in some contexts, and it doesn't > >in others. This is the latter case. > > John, I don't believe that it is necessary to break the > end-to-end model of the Internet in order to implement > accountability for posting email. Rather than filtering > port 25 at the user ISP, every ISP who operates an > SMTP server could simply get off their butt and stop > accepting connections from anyone that they don't know. > In the case of a user ISP, they know all their own > customers. And they should know a significant number > of their email peers. If people can make arrangments > for NNTP peering or BGP peering rather than opening > it to all comers, why can't we do the same for SMTP? > Pure laziness and lack of vision, IMHO.
A lack of desire to further commercialize something we all pay for already? after smtp peering comes smtp de-peering, settlement based smtp exchange and smtp transit, etc. > Michael Dillon > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2