> Why use 2 > protocols when you can use one? Oh I don't know. Maybe because the infrastructure for it is already in place in the form of hundreds of thousands of existing mail servers that already require authentication if the message being transmitted isn't destined for a local user?
> There would have to be a POP SEND as well. I see. So you're advocating the complete rewrite of two of the most widely used protocols on the Internet, plus the addition of your "solution" to the hundreds or thousands of perfectly good MUAs out there, and for what? So end users don't have to click three or four times in their client while setting up a new account? You're just not getting it. Your idea is bad. Not just bad, but really, really bad. Actually, it's worse than that. It's incredibly stupid. You haven't provided one single advantage to be gained by implementing it, other than end users not having to turn on SMTP AUTH. You're talking about a complete overhaul of the global mail system with no discernable advantage to be gained. Even if the UN (who shouldn't even be bothered with something like this) were to praise your suggestion and recommend its use, you wouldn't get anybody to implement it. It's a horrible, useless idea. Kudos for trying to come up with something revolutionary to address the spam problem, but you failed miserably. Toss this one in the shredder and try again. We'd all like to see a real solution to the problem, and if you can come up with it, fantastic. This isn't it, though. St-
