On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 13:56 -0400, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > On 2021-07-18 at 06:43:51 UTC-0400 (Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:43:51 +0200) > Slavko via mailop <li...@slavino.sk> > is rumored to have said: > > [...] > > > The only usable way seems to be GoiIP blocking countries, but i > > afraid > > that it is wrong way. > > Why? > > If you have no users who need to authenticate from a particular > network, > there's no need to allow access from that network. If knowing where > a > network is based helps you make an accurate estimation of whether > access > from that network is needed, what's wrong with that?
IMHO this should be the general design principle of every protocol, every server, and every router going forward. I just have not been bothered enough so far and have simply steered clear of obvious creepware devices: I do not an LG TV to report my viewing habits, a Samsung washer/dryer to report my laundry habits, and some shady dataminer inferring that if I stopped watching porn and am doing more laudry on the delicate cycle I got a girlfriend and they can now spam me with Valentine Day offers instead of XXX. For SMTP, there is the added complexity that sometimes I have an obligation to receive emails. I was recently a side-show on a Federal Court case in which the judge allowed service per email. To a few hundred parties, many with gmail/hotmail and the like. The behavior of the big mail servers outcompetes some of the most notorious defendants absconding service. As long as SMTP is plagued with these deliverability issues (and with the even worse problem of spam), it is good for internal email only. The guy who predicted the pandemic does not always get it right: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/business/gates-predicts-that-spam-will-go-away.html In that case, one could think of that statement as willful blindness, since spam is in the eyes of the beholder, and spam is good business for the company he represented back then, it seems. -- Yuval Levy, JD, MBA, CFA Ontario-licensed lawyer _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
