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Re: question on ptr rr

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Mon Feb 09 08:24:17 2004

* [email protected] ([email protected]) [Mon 09 Feb 2004, 11:40 CET]:
> Imagine a world in which only ISPs run SMTP servers
> which only talk directly to other servers with which
> they have an offline relationship. A world in which
> everybody hands over their email to an ISP for onward
> delivery in order to get it into the system. A world
> in which it is virtually impossible to send anonymous
> or forged email without the cooperation of an ISP.

Yuck.

(I'm getting flashbacks to a certain Dr. Strangelove scene right now.
 And to some from Brazil, too.)


	-- Niels.

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Blessed are the Watchmakers, for they shall inherit the earth.