[9610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Thu May 29 11:55:42 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Date: 29 May 1997 11:23:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Kent W. England"'s message of Tue, 27 May 1997 18:08:16 -0700
"Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com> writes:
> If the ISP community doesn't address the email problem with protocols and
> technical solutions
Precisely. The current stack of email protocols are the
problem here; it's been known for what, fifteen years,
that Internet email is trivially forgeable and can be used
to generate spectacular denials-of-service.
>, then the legislators will respond to their constituents
> with regulations.
It's sad that apparently the Internet has evolved to the
point where politicians move faster than standards-makers.
Sean.
