Re: [dmarc-ietf] Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Phillip Hallam-Baker writes:
>
>   > My point is that mail is an old protocol and people who expect that
>   > it can be kept going unaltered in its original form serving all the
>   > purposes that it was never designed for but have emerged over time
>   > are going to be upset no matter what.
>
> True, as far as it goes.  However, there is need for a push protocol
> that allows you to receive contacts from authors you don't know yet,
> in other words, a medium that is designed to be flexible enough to
> accomodate new modes of communication.
>
> It's not obvious to me that this need can be satisfied while at the
> same time denying spam.  If it is indeed impossible, I don't see why
> that purpose can't continue to be served by email, while most mail
> (which is correspondence among acquaintances) gets redirected into
> authenticated channels.
>
Just a quick reminder here:  Postal mail is still going strong, after 
100s of years.



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