On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:00 -0500, Andrew Newton wrote:
On Feb 11, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
What the big mail providers,
etc, get out of this bargain is a way to effectively stop miscreants
from using their domain's name without going through something that
they trust (eg, their MTA's). That's pretty good incentive even if
the likelihood that you could then turn around and use that as the
basis for a meaningful reputation check is low.
If it will be inequitable for reputations, then it isn't a meaningful
reputation check. Though, I'm unclear as to the importance of this
secondary feature.
It's not inequitable for reputation, it's inequitable for enforcement.
Being big has its advantages, after all.
Mike