[67414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question on ptr rr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Feb 9 17:30:56 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 09 Feb 2004 22:15:01 +0000
In-Reply-To: <OFCE63997C.619022BB-ON80256E35.00390B7F-80256E35.003A70DA@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> ...
Agreed. However, this...
> We need to start with an Email Service Consortium with a code of email
> server practices in which the larger ISPs agree to stop accepting SMTP
> connections from anyone who is not in the consortium or a customer. This
> will get everyone implementing a set of well-known and consistent controls.
...is not practical. Remember the true street-level definition of spam:
"spam is e-mail you didn't want that wasn't sent by me or my customers."
Trying to form an E-S-C under those conditions is unthinkable or useless.
--
Paul Vixie
