On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jason wrote:

> Well, yeah, but what about the "S" in SMTP?
>

Simple.

> :-)
>
> (hint: it doesnt stand for secure!!)
>
> The net, and BBSes before it, used to be a place that, while filled
> with its own darkness, wasnt so plogged with daily crap.
>
> I say we just kick the damn moneychangers out of the temple entirely,
> and run it like a temple again :-)
>

Um, sure. And we must give to Caesar what is Caesar's... and all that.

We could always make some of the arguments that I have read about open
mail relays not being such a bad thing, and that spammers have their
rightful place on the net. (not to start a flame war, I *hate* spammers
and usually complain to the originating NETBLOCK holder)

Patrick

> Patrick Fleming wrote:
> > It prevents people from arbitrarily using a machine as a SMTP server who
> > don't belong on it though... Yahoo uses it, and before I began running my
> > own SMTP server, I had to deal with the login before sending scenario.
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jason wrote: