On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:23:42 +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com> wrote:
I would rather see us focus on securing the email architecture. Secure submission is part of that, but for some reason people are unwilling to imagine an email system in which an ISP will only accept incoming messages from another ISP with which they have an existing agreement, i.e. rather like email peering.
Ah right - let's go right back to the days of X-400 or possibly UUCP nodes Or if this is something newer, well, that's yet another proposal to take to the IETF
This is solving a different problem. Spam is merely a symptom of an overly simplistic and insecure email architecture. Now that it has drawn our
Changing the smtp protocol, or deploying an entirely new protocol that meets your rigid critieria are some things you have got to do then .. keeping in mind Vern Schryver's checklist of whether this is yet another "final ultimate solution to the spam problem" - http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)