9 Sep
2002
9 Sep
'02
1:46 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Al Rowland wrote:
Final comment on this subject (I promise) :)
How many (more) protocols are we willing to cripple in the name of fighting spam?
Obviously the crippled protocol here is SMTP, because it allows pretty much everything. As a rule, I'm against solving application problems at the network layer, but in this specific case (internet cafe) this specific solution (rate limiting/traffic shaping for traffic to HTTP servers) seems reasonable.