Re: [Asrg] Deprecating plain POP accounts

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

 I do it the same way.
> 
>   Let me re-phrase that:
> 
>     "People need to be able to send email from anywhere, to anyone,
>      using any email address they choose."
> 
>   I don't think that's a good idea.

the people who need to do this don't care whether you think it's a good
idea or not.

the place where you happened to be connected to the network has nothing
to do with your identity.  to the extent that there is a correlation
now, it will get less useful as time goes on, because networks are
becoming more diverse.

>  I can't drive 200 MPH on city streets, much as I may like to.

driving 200 miles per hour causes problems.  submitting mail from random
places on the net does not.

>   There are technical solutions to this problem.  Authenticated SMTP
> exists, and should be used.
> 
>   It's ugly to to create hacks to work around the fact that people are
> unwilling to use existing protocols.  It just makes the problem worse.

you have it backwards.  authenticated smtp is a clean solution; tying
identity to network location is a hack.

Keith
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