On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Steven Bellovin:
>
>> Bring back the MB or MR DNS records? (Only half a smiley.)
>
> Eh, you don't want to put this information into a public database.
> Officially, for privacy reasons. Unofficially, to create a barrier to
> market entry.
>
Right; I was not seriously suggesting that the DNS was the right spot for it.
I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the email
equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering. Then, of course,
there's problem of upgrading the $\aleph_0$ mail senders out there to comply...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
