[69528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Apr 14 02:36:40 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:35:56 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g37jwjnr11.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
>that's somewhat the opposite of empowerment. if a "spam solution" can
>take away that crisis and the expense is that my dsl-connected end host
>has to tunnel its e-mail to someplace out in <www.vix.com/personalcolo>
>then that's a tradeoff i can live with.
>
>
>
You, sure, how about the people who are not really computer literate and
use SMTP AUTH to send their mail from various places? Remember that
convinience almost always outweighs security with the general
population. If it wouldn´t, the ICT market would not look like it looks
today.
Obviously the other issue is, which has been raised several times, that
many provider SMTP services are not really performing up to the
expectations of almost instantaneous email delivery. Delays up to days
are not too uncommon occurrences.
Pete
