At 01:38 PM 6/28/2003 -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
[..]
Let's face it, SMTP (as it was in the 1980's) is irrevocably dead.
Spam has killed it, and we need to accept that fact. Whether the new
non-spammy protocol is SMTP++, or something else, is irrelevant. We
need to do *something* more than believe that SMTP was created by God,
and that anyone changing it will be cursed forever.
SMTP is not the only problem here - its the very nature of the Internet
itself - the whole TCP/IP suite. Many of Internet protocols have been built
as open systems inherently trusting all users of the network to behave
themselves. I think that the problem goes much deeper than simply SMTP - it
affects all of Internet protocols. SMTP and spam is a specific example,
just like DDOS, viruses, worms, and other stuff.
Yakov
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