Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-03-01 Thread Todd Vierling
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm skeptical that a model that only sort of works for under 30K ASNs > > and maybe 1K bilateral peering agreements for the *really* big Tier-1s > > won't scale to a world that has 40M+ .com domains and probably a million > > SMTP servers. > > Well

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-03-01 Thread Michael . Dillon
> > No, I am not suggesting a return to the UUCP model. If I > > was then I would have said that. I am suggesting that > > we apply the lessons learned from the BGP peering model. > > I'm skeptical that a model that only sort of works for under 30K ASNs > and maybe 1K bilateral peering agreements

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
> No, I am not suggesting a return to the UUCP model. If I > was then I would have said that. I am suggesting that > we apply the lessons learned from the BGP peering model. I'm skeptical that a model that only sort of works for under 30K ASNs and maybe 1K bilateral peering agreements for the *rea

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-03-01 Thread Michael . Dillon
> >Because that would require providers to act like professionals, > >join an Internet Mail Services Association, agree on policies > >for mail exchange, and require mail peering agreements in > >order to enable port 25 access to anyone. > > Nice in theory, but I don't think it would scale. In e

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-28 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 4:51 PM + 2/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll agree with you on one thing, though -- the whole business of port 587 is a bit silly overall...why can't the same authentication schemes being bandied about for 587 be applied to 25, thus negating the need for another port just for mail

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
[ This discussion should be moved to Spam-L. ] On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:35:53AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You misunderstand me. I believe *LESS* red tape will mean > better service. Today, an email operator has to deal with > numerous blacklisting and spam-hunting groups, many of which

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:35:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You misunderstand me. I believe *LESS* red tape will mean > better service. Today, an email operator has to deal with > numerous blacklisting and spam-hunting groups, many of which > act in secret and none of which have any accountability

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-28 Thread Michael . Dillon
> > Unfortunately, providers seem to prefer unilateral heavy-handed > > behavior rather than acting professional. They prefer working out > > solutions in isolation or in small closed cabals working in secret in > > backrooms rather than working open to public scrutiny in an > > association. They

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-26 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'll agree with you on one thing, though -- the whole > > business of port 587 is a bit silly overall...why can't the same > > authentication schemes being bandied about for 587 be applied to 25, > > thus negating the need for another port just

Re: The Terrible Secret of MAAWG (was Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?))

2005-02-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
And what's an even stranger secret is that MAAWG members get to pay double the registration fee of non maawg members :) Now that's openness for you ... Come on in .. it is the nearest thing to nanog that I've seen for mail ops people in the NA region (+ quite a lot of the world). --srs (I like

The Terrible Secret of MAAWG (was Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?))

2005-02-25 Thread J.D. Falk
On 02/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You might want to check out http://www.maawg.org - at least stateside, > > I'm uncomfortable with two aspects of this group. > First is it's anti-abuse stance. I would prefer to > see a group that was focussed on services, i.e. > providing the best emai

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-25 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Fri 25 Feb 2005, 18:13 CET]: > Unfortunately, providers seem to prefer unilateral heavy-handed > behavior rather than acting professional. They prefer working out > solutions in isolation or in small closed cabals working in secret in > backrooms rather tha

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
> You might want to check out http://www.maawg.org - at least stateside, I'm uncomfortable with two aspects of this group. First is it's anti-abuse stance. I would prefer to see a group that was focussed on services, i.e. providing the best email service possible to end-users. The second thing is

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:51:31 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll agree with you on one thing, though -- the whole > > business of port 587 is a bit silly overall...why can't the same > > authentication schemes being bandied about for 587 be applied to 25, > > thus nega

Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

2005-02-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
> I'll agree with you on one thing, though -- the whole > business of port 587 is a bit silly overall...why can't the same > authentication schemes being bandied about for 587 be applied to 25, > thus negating the need for another port just for mail injection? Because that would require provider