[69531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Wed Apr 14 04:10:14 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:09:39 +0000 (UTC)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <cistron.407CDBCC.60004@he.iki.fi>,
Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> wrote:
>
>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.
That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html
Mike.
