On Tuesday 01 August 2006 12:41, Marc Perkel wrote: > I think that end users shouldn't be using SMTP at all. I think SPTM > should be a server to server protocol and that the POP/IMAP protocol > should be modified to allow sending outgoing email over the same > connection that mail comes in over.
The fact that smtp is broken, and always has been, does not negate the virtue of direct delivery from my machine to yours. That is the way it was always meant to be. Funneling more and more mail thru ISPs and (ultimately) governments does not increase its security or your liberty. It simply gives ISPs a steak in keeping spam alive, because they can charge customers for filtering it. Direct deliver is not evil, and the current fad of blocking DHCP assigned IPs had not cut down on spam one little bit. End users should not use SMTP, but neither should anyone else. It needs replacement from the ground up. But trashing end user use of a direct delivery MTA is NOT the answer I would expect or accept on a unix/linux oriented list. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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