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Re: Questions about Internet Packet Losses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Thu Jan 16 14:53:11 1997

From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:17:06 -0500 (EST)
Cc: inet-access@earth.com, com-priv@psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701161759.AA18370@world.std.com> from "Barry Shein" at Jan 16, 97 12:59:26 pm

> >As for the particular fix for SMTP spamming, I would then suggest a
> >priority header.
> >[0 -- reserved] (emergency priority)
> >[1-3 -- private email]
> >[4 -- solicited distribution] (mailing lists, etc)
> >[5 -- unsolicited distribution] (spam)

One comment:

A system like this, for both SMTP and HTTP, could help us as a community
hugely in the future.  (i.e. Self-regulating now).

Avi

[sorry for continuing the cross-post to nanog on this]



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