On 2/10/10 10:49 AM, der Mouse wrote:
Do you think a political campaign that resulted in - say - all UK
educational establishments, or all .gov.uk domains (or both)
implementing such a rule would change their minds? What if Google
also implemented the rule.
BTW, are you suggesting that Internet Standards should be determined
by what Google does?
Why not? The "rough consensus" appears to be that "anything is
acceptable provided Google does it", so on "rough consensus and running
code" grounds, yes, what Google does _should_ set the spec.
They've likely experienced a fair amount of nuisance traffic generated
by prolific email abuse. Why should each host on the Internet publish
records with a sole purpose of indicating public exchange of SMTP is NOT
desired? It should be easy for organizations to make exceptions for
link-local hosts monitored via email, when too bothered to
auto-configure MX records.
It would be nice if everyone "formally" adopted their convention of
noting sender IP address in A-R headers as well, essential for
uncovering compromised systems.
Those two good behaviors copied at large would indeed help curb much of
email related abuse.
-Doug
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