Lazy network operators

Wed Apr 14 06:35:56 UTC 2004

Paul Vixie wrote:

>that's somewhat the opposite of empowerment.  if a "spam solution" can
>take away that crisis and the expense is that my dsl-connected end host
>has to tunnel its e-mail to someplace out in <www.vix.com/personalcolo>
>then that's a tradeoff i can live with.
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You, sure, how about the people who are not really computer literate and 
use SMTP AUTH to send their mail from various places? Remember that 
convinience almost always outweighs security with the general 
population. If it wouldn´t, the ICT market would not look like it looks 
today.

Obviously the other issue is, which has been raised several times, that 
many provider SMTP services are not really performing up to the 
expectations of almost instantaneous email delivery. Delays up to days 
are not too uncommon occurrences.

Pete