Re: Problems with SPF, solutions, and a timeline.

>  The same argument can be applied to any proposed anti-spam system:
>There are tens of millions of systems which will never publish
>anti-spam information "foo", or will never clean the spam trojans off
>their systems, or will never fix their open proxy, or will never do
>anything.

Right.  That tells me that a system that can be deployed incrementally
and get incrementally useful results will be a lot more useful than
one that won't be useful until most of the net deploys it.


>  This sounds to me like an argument for throwing away SMTP entirely,
>and starting over with perhaps a similar protocol on a different port,
>but one which doesn't have SMTP's flaws.

>  So... we should do nothing.

I suppose that if you were determined to find the stupidest possible
interpretations of what I said, it might sound that way.

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