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Re: FTC stuff 0) Lies 1)Yahoo & DK. 2)GoDaddy DNS & SPF & CSV. 3)Dean & FUSSP. 4)Testing 5)EFF, Anonymity.

2004-11-20 15:22:23


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan DeKok" <aland(_at_)ox(_dot_)org>
To: "MXCOMP" <ietf-mxcomp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: FTC stuff 0) Lies 1)Yahoo & DK. 2)GoDaddy DNS & SPF & CSV.
3)Dean & FUSSP. 4)Testing 5)EFF, Anonymity.



  The failure of SMTP to protect from forgery, malicious bounces,
etc. is a failure of the security model of SMTP.  Until that's
analysed and fixed, all of the proposed schemes are band-aids.

Hear! Hear!

So when do we start cleaning up SMTP?  <g>

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Hector Santos
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