question on ptr rr

Mon Feb 9 22:15:01 UTC 2004

> ...

Agreed.  However, this...

> We need to start with an Email Service Consortium with a code of email
> server practices in which the larger ISPs agree to stop accepting SMTP
> connections from anyone who is not in the consortium or a customer. This
> will get everyone implementing a set of well-known and consistent controls.

...is not practical.  Remember the true street-level definition of spam:
"spam is e-mail you didn't want that wasn't sent by me or my customers."
Trying to form an E-S-C under those conditions is unthinkable or useless.
-- 
Paul Vixie