Re: [ietf-smtp] Dombox - A Zero Spam Mail System

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:13:49 -0700, David MacQuigg said:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:12 AM Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> 
> wrote:
> > On 9/26/2019 11:01 AM, David MacQuigg wrote:
> > > The volume of spam is not a problem for a properly implemented Receiver,
> > There is an unfortunate and fundamental error in your choice of vocabulary.
> I don't have time to argue over vocabulary.  I'll just say that I find it
> much more convenient to say "Receiver" instead of "the first Agent on the
> Recipient's side of the Border, the one that interfaces directly with the
> Transmitter".  See http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Email_system for
> definitions of these terms and examples of how they are useful in
> describing real systems.
Hate to tell you this, Dave is probably quite aware of what "receiver"  and
"recipient" means in an e-mail protocol context, and he's using them correctly.

(Anybody else having a flashback to the time somebody was trying to explain
RIPv2 to Tony Li? :)
 
His point was that it's not a problem for the end *recipient*. It is, in
general, a very real problem that sucks considerable resources and manpower for
*receiver* - "the first Agent on the Recipient's side of the Border".

When your Receiver server farm is spending more time dealing with rejecting spam
than it is in receiving and delivering legitimate mail, it's a problem.

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