From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ISP filtering - update Message-ID: <20030926154600.P19995@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20030926152349.O19995@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from David Presotto on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:33:11AM -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:46:01 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4fb0605c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:33:11AM -0400, David Presotto wrote: > > My friends in china have dial ups. The cost of a call to the US > is prohibitive. Having to change their configuration to call > the US only for mail messages to me is just silly. > Hey, that's not what I meant! Or, yes, I _did_ consider it for my clients that can afford even (short) international calls, but I can dial an ISP and establish an SMTP connection with "sources" through it, surely? Well, maybe not "sources", but whatever Bell Labs use as the incoming SMTP server? > If we're looking for a solution that only works for people on > 9fans to talk to each other, then we don't have to think very > hard. That wasn't it, at all. I'm just thinking that SMTP with a little savvy and moderate security (I like to think of it as Certified MTP, but I'm probably misusing the English language), will go a long way and requires much greater social adjustment than technical change. The former is long overdue anyway. Sorry if in my terseness I manage to be cryptic too. ++L