On Wed, 23 May 2001, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
Okay, I don't want to perpetuate this lil battle more than it needs to however I do have a few observations that are blindingly glaring to me and perhaps been overlooked...
Mitch Halmu was said to been seen saying: [snip]
Second, open relays were the norm until Paul Vixie decided you should do otherwise. And in many cases, he convinced thy by brute force that his way is the right way is the only way. But it wasn't the legal way. Most providers bent over and silently took the punishment. We won't. Do I seem to whine here?
Point blank open-relays are not a good idea, they may have when the technology was not there to do otherwise but come on, with SMTP AUTH and TLS capabilities in most "reputable" mail servers there is absolutely no excuse for it. If you remove the open relays you remove a good bit of the fscking spam that pollutes the net and annoys the hell out of most people. And SMTP AUTH and TLS would not prevent your roaming customers from sending and receiving and would actually HELP you verify it is them.
<snipped what I felt didn't need further encouragement>
Respectfully, Jeremy T. Bouse
As I answered in a private post to a similar observation, you don't have to take my word for it. Perhaps you believe what Chip Rosenthal, the daddy of MAPS TSI, states on his own site about POP-before-SMTP Authorization: "Our users hated it - particularly those using MS Outlook". --Mitch NetSide