[93856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security of National Infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Dec 29 18:28:22 2006
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:27:25 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Jerry Pasker <jerry@jerry.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a06200704c1bb48febf1e@[65.199.121.152]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jerry Pasker wrote:
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> It is the way it is, because the internet works when it's open by
> default, and closed off carefully. (blacklists, and the such) Would
> email have ever taken off if it were based on white lists of approved
> domains and or senders? Sure, it might make email better NOW (maybe?)
> but in the beginning?
There was an experiment on this. It's called X.400.
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>
Pete
