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Re: We need an IETF BCP for GREY LISTING

2011-10-24 16:20:25

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:03:28PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
That and it seems that we have a lot of people jumping on a bandwagon to
define something new without any reason to believe that it will provide
a significant benefit.

Yes, and:

We have a lot of people jumping on a bandwagon to define something new
without asking WHO it will benefit.  Possible inadvertent beneficiaries
include spammers and other abusers/attackers, so I think it's incumbent
on those advancing such proposals to not only conduct a full analysis
of how such technology will be attacked, but also to show that even in
the presence of such inevitable attacks that the approach is still a win
over the current state of affairs.

---rsk