To:
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc:
Markus Stumpf <maex-lists-dns-ietf-dnsop@Space.Net>, dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 01:33:10 +0200
In-Reply-To:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0304031428010.32357-100000@commander.av8.net>
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: RR DNS and spam
At 2:43 PM -0500 2003/04/03, Dean Anderson wrote:
> SMTP is a client-server protocol, not a
> server-server protocol. Your proposal is just a way to use DNS to make
> SMTP server-server.
This is a demonstrably false statement. The updated RFCs for
Internet e-mail explicitly state that SMTP is a server-to-server
protocol. If you want client-to-server, this would be the Mail
Server Protocol (MSP). Right now, MSP looks a hell of a lot like
SMTP, but they will diverge in the future.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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