Re: Mail-Transmitter RR

[Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>]

Agreed.  I send mail from my laptop, which travels with me all over
the place, but my From address is elsewhere.  How is my home address
supposed to know what IP address I'm using at any particular point in
time?  Forcing me to forward all my mail through my home network just
means more latency when they get clogged.  Worse, I've got _multiple_
addresses that I use -- how is my mail agent (UA or TA) supposed to
know how to forward the mail?

I agree that this technical solution wont really work.  However I
disagree that all technical solutions are out of the question.  Some
of the technical proposals I've seen might help.  For example, if all
email required PGP security, or if all email required a "digital
postage stamp" where the sender has to pay real money to the recipient
if they consider the message spam.  For real email usage the recipient
would never cash in the postage, but for spammers it would (hopefully)
be a financial disincentive to spam.  MTAs could verify the postage on
messages or drop them, MUAs would be given an option of "cash the
postage or ignore it".

-derek

Mark.Andrews@isc.org writes:

> 	Email addresses are tied to individuals not machines.  I don't
> 	think anyone wants to give up sending email as themselves from
> 	a arbitary machine.  Without the will to give this up you won't
> 	reach the critical match to make this idea work.
> 
> 	SPAM is a political problem and as such technical solutions won't,
> 	in general, work.
> 
> 	Mark
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