----- "Marc Perkel" <m...@perkel.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about what it would take to actually eliminate spam > > or reduce it to less than 10% of what it is now. One of the problems > is > the SMTP protocol itself. And a big problem with that is that mail > servers talk to each other using the same protocol as users use to > talk > to servers. > > Rather than get all users to change maybe it would be easier to get > server software to change. This transition can be done by making > server > software that can do both protocols to maintain compatibility but will > > use the new protocol if both sides are capable of talking at that > level. > > I'm not sure what the specification of the new protocol should be but > it > should at least be different than what email clients use so that > server > to server communication isn't the same as client to server > communication. Perhaps server protocols can have more authentication > information that would protect them from being spoofed. But having > something different - even if it's just a port change - is better than > > what we have now. > > Thoughts? > > (sorry about posting the same message to the dev list. My mistake) There was a very interesting idea by Bernstein (creator of Qmail). Time flies. It's now 10 years old... http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html -- João Gouveia http://mailspike.org/
