At 12:08 PM -0500 2003/10/10, Trusted Mailer Support wrote:
At its core,
the system essentially blocks all "bulk" email unless the bulk sender
has the system's x-header authentication scheme contained within the
email header.
It will not be an Internet standard for mail with an "X-" header.
Period.
If you truly want to target an Internet standard, you're going to
have to target a real header. You could use an "X-" header during
transition, but you'd have to have a strong transition plan for how
you can guarantee that would be replaced with the real operational
header.
If you're making a basic error like this at this stage, then one
of the first things I'd suggest is that you re-read all of the
relevant RFCs, starting with 2821 and 2822.
Quote me chapter and verse from the relevant RFCs, from memory.
I know people who can do it. You need to be one of those people.
The system has several layers of anti-spoofing steps
it runs through before accepting the email message (done in a way that
will not jam servers and cause deliver delays).
As the former Sr. Internet Mail Administrator for AOL, consultant
on a number of very large-scale e-mail projects, author of an invited
talk on building large-scale mail systems (presented at LISA 2000),
and technical reviewer of a couple of related books, I would be very
interested to hear more about how this system can be made scalable.
Anyway, that's a taste. Send me an email if you'd like to learn more
about the project.
Therein lies the problem. If you really would "...like to
contribute our work to the public good in hopes that the industry
will adopt at least some of these concepts", then that discussion
would have to take place in a group like ASRG, and in a place like
this mailing list.
Plenty of people have come to me with a variety of anti-spam
projects which have required NDA. I haven't signed one yet.
I'm going to be a tough nut to crack. I'm sure I'm not the only
one. You're going to have to convince people like me if you want to
get very far with such a proposal.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad(_dot_)knowles(_at_)skynet(_dot_)be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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