[156020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Tue Sep 4 12:32:51 2012
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:31:49 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <29088432.23124.1346774707888.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/4/12 9:05 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Peach" <john-nanog@johnpeach.com>
>
>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
>> Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>>> SMTP Auth to *arbitrary remote domains' MX servers*? Am I missing
>>> something,
>>> or are you?
>>
>> I run an MTA on my server and auth to that from laptops and other
>> clients. Relaying allowed for authorised users.
>
> So, in other words, it's ok to rant and stomp our feet about the end-to-end
> architecture and how critical it is to support in order to diss NAT, but
> we're required to ignore it when discussing SMTP?
>
> I'm not sure I'm following, there.
>
Feelings on spam = "this is why we can't have nice things"
~Seth
