Lazy network operators

Wed Apr 14 08:09:39 UTC 2004

In article <cistron.407CDBCC.60004 at he.iki.fi>,
Petri Helenius  <pete at he.iki.fi> wrote:
>
>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.
>>  
>>
>>
>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 wouldnŽt, the ICT market would not look like it looks 
>today.

That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html

Mike.