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Re: [ietf-smtp] EHLO domain validation requirement in RFC 5321

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Mon, 28 September 2020 00:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] EHLO domain validation requirement in RFC 5321
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On 9/27/20 8:26 PM, John Levine wrote:

>> Anyone around here been on Usenet in the late 1990s, and remember this on-
>> going flamewar, how spam filtering is detrimental, how everyone has an
>> entitled right to have their email delivered, yadda yadda yadda?
> I'm definitely getting a 1990s vibe here.

If anything, the state of email delivery is worse now than it was then.

(of course, email spam wasn't as bad then as it is now.)

Keith

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