[81539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email peering (Was: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Jun 16 14:54:08 2005
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:53:06 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050616184414.553E93BFE96@berkshire.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >You're lost in the past. Study history and stop repeating it back to us.
> Although I agree that email peering is a seriously bad idea, I don't
> think that the analogy to uucp is correct.
You're right -- I left out the routing table bit, which also existed some
time ago. BITNET used the bitnet.links file; here's an old one still
accessible for viewing:
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/host-tables/bitnet.links
Similar concept, same scaling problems; it just hides the explicit routing
from the user (as would any modern "peering" system, presumably).
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
