[51242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Aug 21 23:19:38 2002
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:08:52 +0200."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:16:39 -0400
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:08:52 +0200, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> said:
> It's bad enough waiting for DNS responses so that you can
> determine whether or not the envelope sender domain even exists. Now
> you want to slow down every single e-mail transaction by many, many,
> many orders of magnitude so that you can do a callback on each and
> every connection?!?
Worse yet, under his proposal, you're calling back to a callback address
provided by the spammer on the MAIL FROM, to verify a spammer-provided token.
What's wrong with this picture?
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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