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RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

  • From: Brad Knowles
  • Date: Wed Aug 21 19:04:29 2002 
At 11:50 AM -0400 2002/08/21, Robert Blayzor wrote:


 Well yes, it could be done with certificates, but it can also be done
 via some type of "root server" system like DNS uses.  A database
 distributed among many root servers from the registrars is proven.
Look. The DNS is seriously screwed-up enough as it is. Let's not take a bad model and replicate it elsewhere.

 Tracking valid servers seems much easier to track rather than
 blacklisting IP's that are not mail servers at all or are abusive
 servers.
Sure. Only accept e-mail from white-listed servers. You don't need a complex system to manage that.

           IMHO I don't think it would be that horrible of an idea with
 the right amount of notification and education to state something such
 as "register your mail servers by this date or risk service
 interruption".

	Sure.  Are you willing to be the first?

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Brad Knowles, <[email protected]>

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