why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

Sun Mar 30 03:00:36 UTC 2014

Although that's useful for some situations it's a not at the heart of
the spam problem, or is just one small facet at best.

People you don't know, like perhaps me right now, will send you email
which isn't spam, and which presumably you're ok with receiving.

So, it's not the overriding problem with spam.

On March 29, 2014 at 18:58 LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon) wrote:
 > On 3/29/2014 12:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
 > 
 > > *Postage schemes as proposed with end users email clients 'attaching
 > > postage' simply not workable  Not in IPv4.  Not in IPv6.   Not in IPng
 > >   Not in any conceivable future version of IP.
 > 
 > And I insist that we are all wasting our time trying to make SMTP and 
 > its supporting protocols (and their kin under IPX/SPC, Sperrylink, UUCP, 
 > et alia) are not at the transport layer and nothing at the transport 
 > layer is responsible for nor rich with solutions for their problems.
 > 
 > IF the overriding problem is due to an inability to identify and 
 > authenticate the identification of  the sender, then let us work on 
 > establishing a protocol for identifying the sender and authenticating 
 > the identification  of the sender and permitting the receiver to accept 
 > or deny acceptance of traffic by reference to that identification.
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Requiescas in pace o email           Two identifying characteristics
 >                                          of System Administrators:
 > Ex turpi causa non oritur actio      Infallibility, and the ability to
 >                                          learn from their mistakes.
 >                                            (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)

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        -Barry Shein

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