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To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
cc: Markus Stumpf <maex-lists-dns-ietf-dnsop@Space.Net>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:41:00 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <a0521061bbab274a4c614@[10.0.1.2]>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: RR DNS and spam

What RFC's would that be?

		--Dean

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 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.
>
> GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
> !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
> tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
>

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