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

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Peter Childs wrote:

> 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), security (encrtption etc), binary attachments (without the overhead
> of base64 encoding) plus a list of other things.

This is simply not feasable. The fact is that email is a success because 
it doesn't require stupid things like global pre-registration and 
certification which you would need for everyone ever issued an email 
address for the above fantasy to be possible.

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

Wrong. The purpose of the protocols used for email is to facilitate the 
exchange of email. They are very much fit for purpose as the success of 
email demonstrates.

Jason
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