[x]Blackmoor Vituperative

Monday, 2006-08-28

Replacing SMTP: A proposal

Filed under: Security — bblackmoor @ 11:45

If you’re like the majority of Internet users, a good quantity of your e-mail is junk. Perhaps the amount seems like less than it actually is thanks to filtering, but it’s still there. The world is fighting a losing battle with junk e-mail — primarily because of weaknesses in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) — and everyone knows it.

(from TechRepublic.com, Replacing SMTP: A proposal)

Spam is beyond ridiculous. We have needed a better email protocol for years. Yarden’s sugestion is as good as anything else that I have seen.