From: "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Logan Shaw wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Marc Perkel wrote:
SMTP passwords go away because SMTP goes away.
The idea is that outgoing IMAP would replace SMTP and there would be
no SMTP between clients and servers. SMTP would be a server to server
protocol.
That's all well and good saying SMTP is server to server
only, but how are you going to get the spammers to cooperate?
Do you think they will volunteer? And when you are running
an SMTP server, how can you tell if SMTP connections that it
receives are really coming from another server?
- Logan
If SMTP becomes a server to server protocol then it will wipe out
consumer virus infected spam zombies. It's not going to get rid of all
spam - just most of it.
Marc, Earth to Marc, what makes you think for an atto-second that
it is not possible for a spammer to mimic an smtp server sending
legitimate email? It's done all the time. What makes you think that
a (small for manageability) system of email servers can handle the
traffic if EVERYTHING was submitted through them? What makes you
think a new ad hoc smtp address would not sprout up and get used
by people who think going through a small set of government (UN?)
administered servers is a very bad thing just on principle. If
the list of "legitimate" servers is fairly large then what is to
stop the growth industry this creates for spammer friendly email
registrars?
You have a singular vendetta against SMTP that is irrational. Engage
critical thinking and learn about what is really out there and what
works. You seem to be remarkably ill tutored. You seem to be at the
equivalent of a politician's aid's position of knowledge about the
Internet and its protocols. Somebody told you SMTP is bad and IMAP
is the only good in the world and ordered you to justify this. It is
not going to fly with this group. If you REALLY ARE submitting your
report to the UN in an official capacity you owe it to the world to
get real. If this is a class project, you lose. I'd grade you about
a D- for the submission. Your attitude reads like something I would
expect from a VERY totalitarian regime because it exposes EVERYBODY
to DIRECT government intervention in the email process. That is an
incredibly bad thing.
{^_^} Joanne said that and means it.
