PV> well, except that that's not how dns was created, or http, or html, or
PV> nntp, or xml, or rpc/xdr/nfs, or sip, or pgp, or jabber.
_New_ services get created in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reason.
if you believe that ssh was a new service (compared to telnet) then i agree
with this perspective. i think that you won't, though. new ways of doing
old things can appear, and old ways of doing those same things can disappear,
and this is good and right and healthy. smtp won't have to be declared dead
in order for me to stop using it when something better comes into existence.
it's worth remembering that mail was once transferred using the ftp protocol.
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Really, Paul. Pursuit of spam control needs far more detail and
deliberation. It's urgent, but that's no excuse for being vague and
generic.
probably you should Just Hit Delete until yahoo "domainkeys" saves smtp, then.
At a minimum, claims that we need to replace smtp need to include a
specific proposal that offers specific features absent from smtp. And
it needs to include a transition plan for those hundreds of thousands
of operators and 1/2 billion users.
actually, they don't. and, if you stack the problem grain to grain like
that, you'll never cut through.