Dave Crocker wrote:
John Leslie wrote:
Doug Otis and I have been working up a proposal for a SMTP extension
to shift some of the burden of spam abatement away from the receiving
SMTP servers towards the originator. It is now published at:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-otis-smtp-tbr-ext
In essence it holds the originator responsible for maintaining the
copy of the message until a receiving Mail User Agent determines that
it should be delivered to the recipient.
1. <http://tinyurl.com/2lpvkm>
For some reason, that tinyurl gives the wrong page.
This one seems to work correctly:
<http://tinyurl.com/2jhsqt>
d/
ps. David Skoll's point, about adoption incentives, nicely opens the door to
another set of reasons this type of mechanism does not really solve the stated
problem.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net