Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

Tue Aug 27 02:19:45 UTC 2002


>Force forward by default, but allow anyone who wants to use TCP port  
>25 the ability to do so.  They must sign an non-abuse agreement or  
>whatever.  Then they get their host/link put into the TCP port 25 open  
>path.

	Every ISP I have ever worked for and every ISP I have ever used has 
eventually been convinced by me to come around to this policy. Do whatever 
you want by default, but let trusted/clueful people opt out of it and just 
get their IP datagrams from point A to point B.

	I personally wouldn't sign an agreement with an ISP that allowed them to 
molest my traffic in this manner unless it allowed me to opt out of it. I've 
seen the headaches such assumptions about what everybody else needs/wants to 
do can cause.

	DS