Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Obviously life is a bit more complex than "add PKI and signature to > From: and stir". If I get a letter addressed to me from the tax > people, I'll take it, regardless of how it happened to arrive. Junk > mail on the other hand (the paper variety) will meet the inside of my > paper bin without delay if I receive it through the mail, but if my > boss gives it to me and asks me to look at it, I look at it. > > With many of the current protocols, SMTP being a prime example, there > are very many ways to do things that weren't foreseen, or at least not > specifically accommodated, in the original protocol. That was great > because it allowed innovation. Unfortunately, the most innovative > people around these days are the spammers and fishers, so these days, > when we come up with new protocols, we need to specifically allow > everything that's good so implementations/users can reject everything > else. I.e., a new mail protocol will have to address things like > forwarding and mailinglists explicitly. I couldn't make sense of anything but the last sentence, but I agree with the last sentence. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf