SMTP was designed and intended to be used in a trusted environment.
Therefore, it has no design features to prevent spam, and no design
features to help protect the lives of human rights workers. Anyone
relying on RFC 2821 SMTP for either "feature" is fooling themselves.
Actually this is not quite true. The work of Ithiel deSola Pool was very
inflential in the design of the Internet. The end to end principle was
intended to directly address control and censorship issues.
That is not completely relevant to the current question. The IETF does not
own the Internet, parents do not own children. The issue is what the users
of the Internet want.
What the community wants is a solution to both problems.
Phill
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