[170372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Wed Mar 26 19:36:12 2014
Date: 26 Mar 2014 23:35:20 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9578293AE169674F9A048B2BC9A081B4B5423783@MUNPRDMBXA1.medline.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>How about something much simpler? We already are aware of bandwidth caps at service providers, there could just as
>well be email caps. How hard would it be to ask your customer how many emails we should expect them to send in a day?
Once again, I encourage my competitors to follow your advice.
R's,
John
PS: There are plenty of giant botnets that only send a trickle of mail
from each infected host, but the aggregate amount is enormous.
