Perhaps transitional periods, whether to legacy systems or UUCP and
other 'obsolete protocols' can be left till a little later in the
process we have embarked on. Let's dream, for the present, about what a
world without spam would be like, and how it would be achieved when
every responsible person with a mail server has upgraded to Sendmail 9,
Postfix 5 or whatever versions it will be that include our suggestions.
Speaking personally I like the idea of dynamic whitelists coupled with
shared secrets and hmac but I'd have a hard job persuading my company to
install it. How would such a system work for one of the many people who
wish to buy our products and send an email in response to a campaign?
The campaign comes by snailmail on paper so there is no shared secret.
Are we talking limited-time mailboxes here?
mvh/regards
James
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 20:02, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
and that's the right question: "throw it out" is unrealistic. "how do
we make our systems work with it, or gateway to it" is a great
question. answer? I don't know. but it needs to be figured out to make
it work.
I'm not sure I've seen a suggestion here yet that considers
transitional periods or gatewaying to non-conforming systems in their
plans.
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