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Re: [Asrg] Proposal for transition to authenticated email

2003-05-02 06:21:32
At 7:28 -0400 4/30/03, Ken Hirsch wrote:
I am not proposing blocking port 25. The proposal just says that if you want to send to a participating SMTP server, then you must be a participating SMTP server,
otherwise each sender will be subject to challenge/response.

Adoption could be voluntary rather than made mandatory.

Then there are two possible outcomes:

1. ISPs and users flock to this new means of working
- you have created something that is valued. Adoption will proceed at a good rate through peer recommendations and eventually peer pressure.

2. It is ignored
- you have failed to create something that is perceived as beneficial; the market has rejected it

If you aren't willing to allow for exclusively voluntary adoption, then I have to ask, what are you afraid of? If the proposal is so fantastic, they'll flock to it, because absolutely everyone is fed up with spam.

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