[64509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISPs' willingness to take action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul G)
Sun Oct 26 20:14:00 2003
From: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>
To: <kenw@kmsi.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:13:30 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
ken,
> ---snip---
> 3) There was a thread a little while ago that talked about a way to cut
> down spam by simply restricting who you would accept SMTP traffic from.
> Unfortunately, I don't recall the details, but at the time it struck me as
> eminently sensible, and just required cooperation between ISPs to
implement
> effectively.
> ---snip---
so what you are saying is that you would like to go back to the fidonet
days, when site A had to agree to route site B's mail? a deny all, accept
some rule for smtp would horribly break all that is good in humanity. am i
missing something here?
paul
