On Jan 18 2006, Barry Shein wrote:
On January 18, 2006 at 09:48 Danny_Angus(_at_)slc(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk (Danny
Angus) wrote:
>
>
>
> > So by your reasoning we shouldn't have bothered to close the open
> > relays?
>
> A truly effective solution to the real problem would not *require* that
> open relays be closed, it would involve a transaction between the sender
> and the recipient, not impose a constraint on the transport layer.
>
In other words, it'd find some other way to achieve the same effect of
closing open relays.
No, I think what Danny means is that an effective solution needs to be
end-to-end (RFC1958). Only the sender and recipient should be involved, the
intervening network should only transport bits.
I'm not sure an end-to-end censorship system is possible in an accept
and forward infrastructure such as email, but maybe there's some kind
of formal proof of that statement? I don't know.
--
Laird Breyer.
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