Anti-spam SMTP mods

[Lucas Peet]

David Nicol wrote:

>> Because there is no authentication.   
> In the scenario under discussion, we have authentication.

I think that if you re-read the thread, you'll find that in this 
scenario, there is no authentication (aside from what is already 
standard today - no new authentication methods were introduced).  There 
is only checking a digitaly signed header against a public key to verify 
that all the header information is intact, and unmodified as created and 
sent by the mail server itself.  If it's intact, the message gets 
delievered.  If it's not, the message gets dropped.

> etc etc etc you can waste all day
> discussing this stuff.

Nothing ever gets done without discussion first, and through discussion, 
new and better ideas tend to arise.  Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't 
really call that a 'waste'.

-Lucas