the problem is, SMTP _HAS_ authentication hooks in it. The authentication
hook is the fact that there is an opportunity for policy refusal at various
points. The absence of a universal consensus on the framework for making
those decisions (IMO, SPF is a very good start in that direction, as well as
all the other proposals under debate here and elsewhere) is in no way a
"fundamental problem with SMTP." Possibly a "fundamental problem
with human nature" though. Eventually we're all going to be reduced to
stoking the generators to keep our robot overlords in kilowatts...
On 4/27/06, Bart Schaefer <schaefer(_at_)brasslantern(_dot_)com> wrote:
Gotta love the FUD.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/04/18/1581774.htm
I saw the above on Ed Falk's National Spam News blog:
http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/2006/04/national-spam-news_26.html
Ed asks "... but where's the RFC? Has the IETF even heard of it?"
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