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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Vandry)
Thu Oct 30 15:03:19 1997

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:52:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
To: Paul Peterson <paulp@winterlan.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:31:14 EST."
             <51EB05BB2B56CF11A29700AA00AF52092E5F26@exchange.winterlan.com> 

> How about a new RFC outlining a method of dynamically delivering a relay
> host native to whatever service provider you dial in to ?? That way, any
> e-mail can be traced to a supposedly responsible end-user by the
> victimized ISP ??

Better: The user to specifies "smtp" or "mail" as their mail
server and picks up the apropriate search domain from the local ISP.
Works for NNTP too!

-Phil

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