Has Amazon given an official statement on this? It would be nice to get someone from within Amazon to give us their official view on this. It would be even more appropriate for the other cloud infrastructures to join in, and or have some sort of RFC to do with SMTP access within the "cloud." I forsee this as a major problem as the idea of "the cloud" is being pushed more and more. You are talking about a spammers dream. Low cost , powerful resources with no restrictions and complete anonymity. Personally I'm going to block *.amazonaws.com from my mail server until Amazon gives us a statement on how they are planning on fighting spam from the cloud. Tony Finch wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2008, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
I don't see how, in your preferred replacement email architecture, a provider would be able to avoid policing their users to prevent spam in the way that you complain is so burdensome.
To begin with, mail could only enter such a system through port 587 or through a rogue operator signing an email peering agreement. In either case, there is a bilateral contract involved so that it is clear whose customer is doing wrong, and therefore who is responsible for policing it.
This is different from Amazon's situation how?
Tony.
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