[69510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Apr 13 20:03:50 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:02:52 +0900
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> The reality is that the vast majority of email is handed off to
> a designated mail relay (whether we're talking about consumer
> connections or office environments), and if we actually
> configured connectivity in this matter, there wouldn't be a
> problem.
our innate fear of this stems from suspicion of centralization and
the telco switch model. this fear is not clearly unjustified.
maybe we can get reasonable security without a police state?
randy
