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Replacing SMTP?

Posted by Cliff on from the redesigning-the-protocol dept.

dousette asks: "In reading over one of the RFC's governing the SMTP protocol, and other RFC's as well, it's interesting to note that you see some big names and big companies from time to time. With all the loopholes in the current SMTP specification, is it possible for the Slashdot collective to come up with another one? Would it stand a chance in making it into a standard, or do they just listen to Cisco, AT&T, etc? I realize that a lot of people have a lot of ideas how things should be done (and they haven't been shy about posting them to Slashdot), but has anyone tried to write the RFC for a replacement protocol? As a side note (where I won't be shy about posting how things should be done), if there were a replacement trusted protocol, one could have mail received via that protocol bypass spam filtering, id checking, or whatever checks might be in place (saving processor cycles, etc). The regular checks could still be done on other mail received via the 'older' SMTP protocol. If more and more ISP's make use of this, SMTP could be gradually phased out... or if you are one for a sudden cut-over, just cut to the new one at the same time as the IPv6 upgrade!"

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  1. Slashdot Collective? by LS · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it possible for the "Slashdot collective" to come up with anything but a bunch of trolls, whiners, masturbators, and goat secx? What cave was I in when the "Slashdot collective" turned into a productive development community???

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  2. I had the same experience by sweatyboatman · · Score: 0, Troll

    yes, those "remove me" links actually work. The webpages themselves seem like total BS, but I mean, it's just a CGI that adds your email to a text file that is processed later to do the actual removing.

    When I stop doing the "remove me" thing and let Mozilla just delete my spam, I find the numbers gradually increasing back to a level of 100+ a day. And then, I go through and submit my email to the remove addresses. Which settles it down to a normal level.

    My main problem with spam is that it's taking up a whole lot of bandwith. Mozilla keeps 99% of it out of my inbox, but I'd rather the message were never sent.

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    It breaks my pluginses, my precious!