[146015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave CROCKER)
Mon Oct 31 00:42:49 2011
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:41:23 -0700
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
In-Reply-To: <A446E9C3-DD4A-492E-867B-54E3BEE2FF30@drtel.com>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/30/2011 8:36 PM, Brian Johnson wrote:
> So you support filtering end-user outbound SMTP sessions as this is a means to prevent misuse of the Commons*. Correct?
If it is acceptable to have the receiving SMTP server at one end of a connection
do filtering -- and it is -- then why wouldn't it be acceptable to have
filtering done at the source end of that SMTP connection?
As soon as we step upstream this way, stepping up earlier still is merely a
question of efficacy and efficiency.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
