[Gllug] A few words on the topic of stock spam

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Sun Jul 15 18:36:47 UTC 2007


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"Peter Childs" writes:

>This has come up a number of times before (in numerous circles), We need
>a complete rewrite of SMTP, POP3, IMAP etc to enable tracing (sender id)

No, we don't.

>The truth is the protocols used for EMails currently are not fit for the
>current purpose.

Not fit for purpose? I'd say that given the volume of email sent worldwide
on a daily basis, they seem to be quite fit for purpose -- that being to
deliver a non-realtime message from A to B.

Tet
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