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Re: Sender authentication & zombies (was Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Sat Feb 5 22:10:53 2005

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 19:10:21 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1107637048.7270.70.camel@littlejoy>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 02/05/05, Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org> wrote: 

> DK or IIM makes it clear who is administering the server and this
> authentication permits reputation assessment.  Add an account
> identifier, and the problem is nailed.

	Ah, so you're saying that only the reputation of individual
	e-mail addresses is worth paying attention to?  How do you
	expect that to scale to billions of messages per day?

-- 
J.D. Falk                                          uncertainty is only a virtue
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>                    when you don't know the answer yet

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