[170296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Mar 26 00:19:40 2014
Date: 26 Mar 2014 04:18:58 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4AA4280D-D6EF-4751-9E0F-45BD6D03F10D@consultant.com>
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>3. Arguing about IPv6 in the context of requirements upon SMTP connections is playing that uncomfortable game with
>one’s own combat boots. And not particularly productive.
If you can figure out how to do effective spam filtering without
looking at the IP addresses from which mail arrives, you will be in a
position to make a whole lot of money.
But, as always, I'm not holding my breath.
R's,
John
PS: Note the word "effective".
