[69556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Wed Apr 14 10:26:42 2004
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:26:10 -0400
Reply-To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:09:39 +0000 (UTC), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>You, sure, how about the people who are not really computer literate a=
nd
>>use SMTP AUTH to send their mail from various places? Remember that
>>convinience almost always outweighs security with the general
>>population. If it wouldn=B4t, the ICT market would not look like it lo=
oks
>>today.
>
>That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html
Another datapoint.
That may have been "solved 6 years ago" in theory, but in practice it
is not and that needs to be addressed before one can point the unwashed
masses to this option. I am rumoured to be literate computer user and
after many months of trying I cannot find a combination of providers
and software which will accomplish this for me. I travel a lot and need=
this service.
I have read rfc2476.html.
Jeffrey Race
