[9529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon May 26 06:15:38 1997
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 05:57:57 -0400
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ricochet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705260855.BAA24119@rgate.metricom.com> [9705.26]
[Removed com-priv because I am not a member and because any thread between
the two is bound to be a useless flamewar.]
On Mon, May 26, 1997 at 01:51:38AM -0700, Matthew James Gering wrote:
> And in the effort to allow the identification of spam, a required SMTP
> header:
> precedence: [ high | normal | low | bulk | uce ]
>
> This will allow policies to be enforced, and maintain the freedom of
> creating that policy.
Who will ensure that this requirement is followed? Right now
we've got thousands of people using non-standard mail programs
every day, and nobody has been able to get rid of Microsoft
Exchange, Lotus Notes, or any of the other software which is
known to do this....
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