RE: spoofing email addresses

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>   1. block port 25 to external IP addresses for all of your customers
>     except those with what draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-01.txt calls
>     Full Internet Connectivity.

... and receive a flood of complaints because 10% of your users are
using a mail service provided by someone else than you.

>   2. Do not sell Full Internet Connectivity to anyone running
Microsoft
>     software exposed to the Internet.

Regardless of whether Microsoft's software can be secured (it can), this
is a big no-op as a PC behind a "home firewall" is still at risk from
e-mail viruses and questionable web downloads.

>   3. The effects of #1 and #2 include forcing all mail from the usual
>     suspects through your own mail systems so that you can do as the
>     credit card companies do.  Track SMTP envelope Mail_To values or
>     other characteristics for each customer.  When you see a change,
>     contact the customer by voice to check.

So the solution to Spam has to be a massive surrender of privacy! 

I am afraid that you are falling in the very trap that you often
denounce, present you personal definitive solution to Spam...

-- Christian Huitema

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