On Sat, 31 May 2003 17:03:35 GMT, Wakko Warner <wakko@???>
wrote:
> At home, I really don't care if I'm fully RFC compliant.
Why should a statement like that worry me? It's not so much whether your
server may or may not be 100% RFC compliant (if you're not then you are
in good company, most servers in the world most likely aren't) but it's
the fact that you are managing a public mail server and you are stating
that you don't care about the standards which are meant to facilitate the
interchange of data worldwide. And when I say public I am meaning public
in the sense that the front door of your house is "public", not public as
in "public house" :-)
When you make a statement like that don't you see you are putting
yourself in the same basket as those you are (rightly) condemning - above
the "standards" which are attempting to govern the interchange of data on
a *public* infrastructure. It's a "slippery slope..." to quote someone
who works hard to provide a tool that follows those standards - a tool
which we all enjoy.
I, like you, really don't like what spammers are doing to global email,
but tell me - which parts of the RFC's are you going to throw out? and
where will you stop? and what happens when someone else ignores some part
of the RFC's that you may rely on? Well... it's his _right_ isn't it??
No, fortunately, it is not his right.
> I didn't realize how much spam came from korea.
You mean 'bounces off' Korea don't you? On its way out from the US.
