[81478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Economics of spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Mon Jun 13 10:44:38 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:44:12 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com) [Mon 13 Jun 2005, 11:10 CEST]:
>Here's a simple mechanism which has not yet been tried
>seriously. Email server peering. This means that an SMTP
>server operator only accepts incoming mail from operators
>with whom they have a bilateral email peering agreement.
I debunked this before. Please see list archives.
>Bilateral agreements have been shown to scale quite well
>whether you look at BGP peering or the world of business
>contracts. In any case, the fundamental need here is that
[..]
I suggest you take a better look than your current "Oh this sounds
logical and is probably how it works" skimming of reality, because it
really is quite different - much uglier, mostly - from what you state.
-- Niels.
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The idle mind is the devil's playground
