Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-criteria is missing Outbound MTA definition.

Danny Angus <danny.angus@gmail.com> Tue, 30 June 2009 06:46 UTC

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Ok, point taken about outbound MTA

I'm not sure what this is about..

> The draft should drop its current definition of Sender.  Spam does not just
> originate from purported RFC 5321 Senders, nor is it safe to assume that an
> MTA authorization referenced by an RFC 5321 Sender asserts where a message
> was initially created and entered.  Authorization does not provide this
> property.

> Stronger statements along the lines of scaling might be helpful.  It seems
> increasing potential DNS transactions by an order of magnitude or more has
> not been given adequate consideration in some anti-spam efforts. :^(

I think the statements about scaling are clear, do you not?

d.