On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:39, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Eduardo Roldan writes: > > > 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.
That is another problem. All the scheme of the certs is flawed now. Verisign are thiefs. Certificates must be free or low cost. I think that certificates must be issued by nations, as my country issued my ID card to me. But ok, I acknowledge that in the present internet having another certificate for e-mail is a PITA. > > 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. My ISP can block spam-till-you-drop.com cert until they apply a good policy of use to their customers. We could have real black lists, not the IP number crap. > > 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. > If X person sends bulk e-mail as personal he is lying, no matter what he believes the ISP have the final word. If the ISP is permissive block them! Imagine a law that punish the e-mail lie. AMTP permits law enforcement in a easily way. Remember that with AMTP the sender's ISP must enforce that bulk e-mail be taged as bulk, if the end-user opt to not receive bulk and it receives (maybe tagged as personal) there is a explicit break of the end-user right of choice. With plain SMTP I can't say 'Don't send me bulk please or I will hate you'. > Dead on arrival. Maybe. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
