9 Feb
2004
9 Feb
'04
5:13 p.m.
On 09.02.2004 17:59 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:38:20 GMT, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com said:
Imagine a world in which only ISPs run SMTP servers which only talk directly to other servers with which they have an offline relationship.
70K user. 40M .coms. N*M. Gee thanks. That's too damned many relationships to negotiate. And I think we learned our lesson with 'ADMD= PRMD=', didn't we?
Moreover: which ISP would take responsibility that the email is delivered properly to the destination. Today all ISP just do best-effort. This model won't work ... Arnold