Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks
2004-08-02 15:59:16
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:13:01 -0400, Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> wrote:
If we were talking about a completely new protocol, I might agree with
you.
But Usenet and email are both widely deployed, and it's not reasonable
to expect the installed base of Usenet and email software to change to
avoid the impact on the root servers.
There is a lot that is wrong with Usenet, which is precisely why a new
standard in needed. Yes, new features in the new standard will take time
to settle down, and there may be a little pain in the meantime, as is
always the case when things change. But, in this particular case, nothing
actually breaks.
Moreover, the use of the TLD ".invalid" in munged addresses is already
fairly widespread, and is already imposing less load on the DNS system
than the use of other arbitrary bogus domains - a practice which is
currently even more widespread than the use of ".invalid".
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