[170271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Mar 25 20:46:21 2014
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "25 Mar 2014 20:17:35 -0400."
<alpine.BSF.2.00.1403252016070.6500@joyce.lan>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:45:46 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403252016070.6500@joyce.lan>, "John R. Levine" writes:
> > Or he could just not like NSL and the fact the ISP's are required
> > to abide by them. If people want their email going through where
> > it can be snooped apon that is their perogative. Just don't force
> > people to have to use I-WILL-SNOOP-ISP!!!
>
> Who said anything about being required to use your ISP's mail server? I
> don't think I have, ever. You need to use one with a static IP and
> reasonable rDNS, which could be anywhere.
There you go forcing people to jump through unnecessary hoops to
send email.
No you do not need a static address to send email.
No you do not need a PTR record to send email.
None of this is REQUIRED. It is forced on people by a cartel of
email providers.
> Also, if the snoops are interested enough in you to drop an NSL on your
> ISP, you have worse problems than running your own mail server will solve.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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