What thinks Sam Varshavchik about AMTP? http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-weinman-amtp-00.txt
I need the opinion of a The Courier Guru when the next geek lunch comes in :-)
That was a joke. This is open to others too.
1) AMTP uses X.509 certificates signed by trusted certificate authorities. Hope you're looking forward to paying another several hundred bucks a year to Verisign for the privilege of having a "trusted" certificate for sending mail.
2) spam-till-you-drop.com pays the several hundred bucks a year, and receives a valid X.509 spam-till-you-drop.com certificate, enabling them to send "authenticated" mail.
3) The classification of each "authenticated" message is entirely up to the sender's discretion. If the sender believes that the message is a personal one-on-one communication, then that's what it is.
Dead on arrival.
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