Re: Last Call: SMTP Message Submission to Proposed Standard

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

At 09:02 PM 5/11/98 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>Dave Crocker writes:
>> The need HAS been made MORE urgent by the onset of spam problems and the
>> need to treat submission markedly different from relaying.
>
>I've heard the anti-spam arguments and I just don't belive

doesn't matter what you or I believe.  what matters is that already 50% of
the smtp sites on the net have turned off posting from outside their local
net.  This is killing mobile users.

In any event, I was using that as an indication of heightened concern about
treating submission as an independent service.

>anti-relaying -- I have for some time now. It was about twenty lines
>of code added to my MTA. No big deal.)

Well, you're lucky that spam control is so easy for you.  It is proving
rather more problematic for many other sites.

>I'm not arguing that no posting service has a reasonable use. I'm just 
>arguing that the claim that we have a sudden crisis that mandates that 
>we take immediate action to push forward this particular protocol

The topic lay fallow for about a year.  The current urgency has reminded us
to finish the work that was already underway.  Finish means finish, not
start over.

d/

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