question on ptr rr

Mon Feb 9 17:13:53 UTC 2004

On 09.02.2004 17:59 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:38:20 GMT, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com  said:
> 
> 
>>Imagine a world in which only ISPs run SMTP servers
>>which only talk directly to other servers with which
>>they have an offline relationship.
> 
> 
> 70K user. 40M .coms.  N*M.  Gee thanks.  That's too damned many relationships
> to negotiate.  And I think we learned our lesson with 'ADMD= PRMD=', didn't
> we?

Moreover: which ISP would take responsibility that the email is 
delivered properly to the destination. Today all ISP just do best-effort.

This model won't work ...

Arnold